Washington: A US air strike targeting an Islamic State training camp in Libya “likely” killed an IS operative linked to two major jihadist attacks in Tunisia last year, a US defence official said yesterday. “The US conducted an air strike yesterday morning against an ISIS training camp near Sabratha, Libya, that likely killed ISIS operative Noureddine Chouchane,” the official said.

The US-led coalition has been bombing ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria for the past 18 months. Representative pic/AFP