“A high-ranking, influential Islamic State foreign fighter linked to numerous attacks and plots in France may have been killed in a coalition airstrike. ‘Coalition forces targeted Rachid Kassim, a senior ISIS operative near Mosul, in a strike in the past 72 hours,’ Pentagon spokesman Major Adrian J.T. Rankine-Galloway said, using an acronym for the militant group. ‘We are currently assessing the results of that strike.’”
Source: Pentagon: Airstrike Targets French IS Operative in Mosul