The deaths of three more TOP ISIL['s] leaders by a coalition[in an]airstrike was recently announced by the Pentagon. Two of the leaders——Salah Gourmat, and Sammy Djedou—— were involved in facilitating the November 13th, 2015 terrorist attackS in Paris. The THIRD[three leader——],Walid Hamman,[——]was a suicide attack planner [and was] convicted in absentia in Belgium for a terror plot disruptted disrupted in 2015.
Brett McGurk, special envoy ]of the American president in]FOR THE global coalition to counter ISIL, SAID[pointed to that] the three [leaders] join[ed] a growing list of KEY ISIL['s] leaders who have been targeted and eliminated.
AT[In] a press briefing, Mr.McGurk SPOKE OF[mentioned] other successes in the fight against ISIL: the significant shrinking of the territory of THE so-called caliphate; the dwindling number of [soilders]BATTLE-READY ISIL FIGHTERS INSIDE [in] Iraq and Syria; the ongoing destruction of the ISIL's economic[al] base; the substantial [degrading]DECREASE IN[of] ISIL['s] mEssaging on the internet; the [decrease]DEGRADING of ISIL's affiliates ACROSS THE BOARD, including IN Libya, the Lake Chad Basin, and Afghanistan.
Mr McGurk also [noted]POINTED TO the enormous pressure being put on ISIL by the campaigns to take back its two so-called capitals of Mosul and Raqqa.
