U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter confirmed on Friday that American forces had killed the Islamic State (ISIS) group's second-in-command this week, dealing a blow to the extremists' ability to conduct operations in Iraq, Syria and abroad, AFP reports.
"We are systematically eliminating ISIL's cabinet," Carter told reporters, using an alternative acronym from ISIS and referring also to the killing early in the month of Omar al-Shishani, the man known as "Omar the Chechen," who was effectively ISIS's defense minister.
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