A Syria-based ISIS leader linked to the man behind last month's massacre in Paris was killed in airstrikes on Christmas Eve, a Pentagon official said during a security briefing Tuesday.
Col. Steven Warren, spokesman for the Pentagon's Combined Joint Task Force, said Charaffe al Mouadan was killed Dec. 24. He was one of 10 people killed by airstrikes, Warren said.
Al Mouadan had a "direct link" to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of a series of terror attacks that left 130 dead and hundreds injured in Paris on Nov. 13, according to Warren. Abaaoud was killed in a raid days later.
Warren made the announcement during a briefing Tuesday morning, the day after the Iraqi military took back the government headquarters in ISIS-held Ramadi.
