Pentagon: ISIS militants linked to Paris attacks killed in Syria

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The Pentagon announced Tuesday that three Islamic State militants, including two linked to the November 2015 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, were killed last week in a U.S. drone strike in Raqqa, Syria.

Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said the men were "working together to plot and facilitate attacks on Western targets at the time of the strike." They were killed when a drone fired on them as they were driving in a car, he added. The Pentagon identified the militants as Salah Gourmat and Sammy Djedou, who helped facilitate the Paris attacks, and Walid Hamman, a French national convicted in absentia in Belgium for a plot foiled in 2015.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US
Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.