US has confirmed that Islamic State terrorist group’s finance chief Abu Saleh was killed in a coalition air strike last month. In a video conference from Baghdad, US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said, Saleh was killed in late November. He said, Saleh was one of the most senior and experienced members of the group’s financial network.
The US government’s envoy for the anti-IS fight, Brett McGurk, said on Twitter that Saleh was killed along with two associates as part of coalition campaign to destroy the financial infrastructure of the IS.