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U.S. Says It Killed Head of Khorasan Group

The Pentagon announced that it killed Muhsin al-Fadhli, the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra’s external operations wing, sometimes called the Khorasan Group, in a strike on July 8. Fadhli was active in al-Qaeda plots for more than a decade, including an attack against U.S. troops in Kuwait and an attack against the French ship MV Limburg.

• The U.S. Treasury Department issued sanctions against three Hezbollah commanders operating in Syria and a Lebanese businessman supplying arms to Hezbollah forces.

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has called on Islamic State fighters to no longer show gory executions in propaganda films, limiting clips to the moments before and after, to prevent offending viewers’ sensibilities. More : www.mesop.de