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ISIS finance chief killed in U.S. airstrikes

The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria has killed the group’s finance minister and two other senior leaders in air strikes in recent weeks, a U.S. military spokesman said on Thursday. Army Colonel Steve Warren told a Pentagon briefing coalition strikes had killed Abu Salah, Islamic State’s financial minister, in late November. “He was one of the most senior and experienced members of ISIL’s financial network and he was a legacy […]