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ISLAMIC STATE SAYS TOP SPOKESMAN KILLED

- — Jessica Durando

Longtime Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammed alAdnani was killed in Aleppo, Syria, the Amaq News Agency, the media arm of the terror group, said Tuesday.

He was “martyred while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo,” Amaq said in a statement.

It is unclear whether he was killed by ground forces or in an airstrike, according to the BBC.

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