Coalition airstrikes continue to target and kill ISIS leaders and foreign fighters in Syria

Coalition removes ISIS terrorists from battlefield

By CJTF-OIR | August 03, 2017

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SOUTHWEST ASIA - Coalition airstrikes continue to target and kill ISIS leaders and foreign fighters in Syria to support Coalition partner forces and degrade ISIS' ability to

inspire, resource and direct terror attacks around the world.

Most recently, the Coalition targeted and killed ISIS leaders involved in directing external operations as well as bomb making directed at regional and Western targets.

Coalition forces killed Abd al-Ghafur, a Syria-based ISIS external operations official, and one associate in an airstrike July 24 near Albu Kamal, Syria. His assistant, Abu

Hammam, and three other ISIS members were killed by a Coalition airstrike July 16 near Dayr Az Zawr, Syria.

Abd Al-Ghafur and Abu Hammam were responsible for managing and directing external operations attacks and participated in attack plotting against the Middle East and Western

targets. Their removal deprives ISIS of well-connected members with links to trans-regional terror support networks.

Abu Futtum, an ISIS explosives specialist, and one associate were killed in an airstrike July 13 near Mayadin, Syria. As a bomb maker, Futtum was a part of ISIS' network that

instructs and incites others to take the same destructive actions, encouraging lone wolf attacks across the globe using homemade explosives.

The Coalition also targeted ISIS foreign fighters from southeast Europe operating in Syria as ISIS recruiters, facilitators and attack plotters, responsible for multiple atrocities

within Syria.

Lavdrim Muhaxheri was killed by a Coalition airstrike June 7, 2017, near Mayadin, Syria. Muhaxheri was an ethnic Albanian from Kacanc, Kosovo, and a self-proclaimed leader of

ISIS foreign fighters from Kosovo.