US says air strike killed senior Islamic State leader in Syria

US says air strike killed senior Islamic State leader in Syria A US airstrike killed a senior Islamic State group leader in northwest Syria last week, the US military announced on Wednesday. The June 19 strike "killed Ali Husayn al-Ulaywi and is part of ongoing US efforts to disrupt and eliminate terrorists seeking to attack Americans abroad or the US homeland," the US military's Central Command said in a statement. The United States intervened in Syria more than a decade ago to aid local Kurdish-majority forces ba