WASHINGTON U.S. Special Operations commandos killed a senior Islamic State leader in an early-morning helicopter raid in a remote area of northern Somalia on Thursday, U.S. officials said.The Pentagon identified the leader as Bilal al-Sudani.American officials said he was operating in Somalia but that his influence as one of the terrorist group's top financial operatives extended across Africa, into Europe and even to the ISIS branch in Afghanistan that carried out the August 2021 bombing at Kabul's international airport that killed 13 American service members.
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