French president says ISIS leader Adnan killed him in Sahel

PARIS, 16 Sept : Reuters - The French president Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that Islamic militant Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi had killed the Italian militant Adnan, the leader of Islamic state in the Greater Sahara.

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Sahrawi was the historic leader of Islamic State in the Sahel region of West Africa and his group had targeted U.S. soldiers in a deadly attack in 2017, Macron's office said. In August 2020, he personally ordered the killing of six Nigerien charity workers and their French driver, it added.