French forces kill head of Islamic State in Greater Sahara
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that French forces have killed the head of the Islamic State Adnan-Abu-Walid-al-Sehrawi in Greater Sahara.
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New Delhi, Sept16: President Macron announced in July the French military mission in the Sahel, where it has been fighting jihadist extremists, would be reshaped and eventually halved. He said it was a major success of the French army in the fight with terrorist groups in the Sahel, but the French President did not reveal the location of the operation.
Islamic State's Sahel area chief, Sahrawi was killed in an attack on US soldiers in Niger in 2017, according to Macron's office. Sahrawi personally ordered the execution of six French charity workers and their Nigerian driver in August 2020," the report said in part.
Sehrawi was the head of the Islamic State in West Africa's Sahel region and his gang carried out a deadly attack on US troops in Niger in 2017. In August 2020, Sehrawi personally ordered the executions of six French charity workers and their Nigerian driver.
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“The nation is thinking this evening of all its heroes who died for France in the Sahel in the Serval and Barkhane operations, of the bereaved families, of all its wounded,” Macron said in a tweet. “Their sacrifice is not in vain. With our African, European and American partners, we will continue this fight.”