US Military Kills Major ISIS Figure Bilal al-Sudani, 10 Other ISIS Terrorists in Somalia

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks to the media at Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, on Jan. 20, 2023. Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images

The U.S. military carried out a counterterrorism operation on Jan. 25 in Somalia that killed multiple ISIS terrorists, among them Bilal-al-Sudani, according to the Pentagon.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin said that al-Sudani, who is an ISIS leader in Somalia and a key facilitator for ISIS’s global network, “was responsible for fostering the growing presence of ISIS in Africa and for funding the group’s operations worldwide, including in Afghanistan.”