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The head of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, who was wanted for deadly attacks on US soldiers and foreign aid workers, has been killed in an operation by French troops.
Paris [France], September 16 (ANI): French President Emmanuel Macron said on early Thursday that the head of Islamic State, Adnan Abou Walid al Sahraoui has been "neutralised" by French forces in the Sahel.
Adnan Abou Walid al Sahraoui, who was in his late 40s, was neutralised four years after ordering a notorious ambush in Niger in which four U.S. servicemen died and others were wounded.