US kills Islamic State's chief cleric in air strike in Syria
The US-led coalition fighting Islamic State on Tuesday said that it killed the militant group's self-proclaimed chief cleric Turki al-Bin'ali in an air strike in Syria on May 31. Bin'ali was a close confidant of the group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and was placed under US sanctions for helping the militants recruit foreign fighters, the coalition added.