Suspect in Benghazi attack killed in US air strike in Iraq

June 24, 2015 02:04

A Daesh operative suspected of involvement in the 2012 attack on the United States diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, has been killed in a United States airstrike in Iraq, the Pentagon said on Monday.

Ali Awni Al Harzi "operated closely with multiple Daesh-associated extremists throughout North Africa and the Middle East,' Defence Department spokesman Col. Steve Warren said in a statement, using one acronym for the militant group.

"His death degrades Daesh's ability to integrate North African militants into the Syrian and Iraqi fight and removes a militant with long ties to international terrorism.'Warren said Al Harzi, a Tunisian national, was killed last week in Mosul, which fell to Daesh forces a year ago.

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