U.S. forces on Tuesday killed a senior ISIS official in Syria, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced in a statement Thursday. The “successful raid” in northern Syria targeted an unnamed senior ISIS member who also served as a “key financier who planned attacks in Syria and Iraq,

U.S. Central Command described the suspected ISIS official, who was not named, as ‘posing a direct threat’ to U.S. and coalition forces.

US forces eliminated a senior ISIS official in a raid in northern Syria, CENTCOM announces. The official was a key financier and planner of terror attacks.