U.S. troops in Syria detained a senior Islamic State leader earlier this week, and the military has since identified him as Hani Ahmed al Kurdi, known as Salim.
Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S. mission to defeat ISIS, said in a statement on Thursday it was able to identify and capture Kurdi, whom they described as an “experienced bomb maker and operational facilitator who became one of the top leaders in the Syria branch of ISIS.”
