Islamic State has vowed revenge for the death of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the propaganda chief responsible for inspiring and directing terrorist attacks against the West.
He is the most senior Isis figure to be killed in a targeted strike. Some analysts said that he was a more prized target for the Pentagon that even the Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi because of his role orchestrating attacks abroad.
The jihadist group announced Adnani’s death hours after the airstrike, which it said was on a car at a junction outside the northern Syrian town of al-Bab on Tuesday afternoon.
The Pentagon said that it had attacked Adnani in a precision strike at that time and in that location but did not confirm his death. The strike was