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Thursday, May 24, 2018
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Thursday, May 24, 2018
US-backed group captures French IS member
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA US-backed Syrian Kurdish group has detained a high-profile French Islamic State fighter in northern Syria who has been linked to terror attacks in Paris and Nice in 2015 and 2016, the group announces.
The Syrian Democratic Forces says they captured Adrien Lionel Kiyali on Saturday near Raqqa in Syria, the former self-proclaimed capital the jihadist group.
French media report his name as Adrien Guihal.
In recordings from the Islamic State group, Guihal claimed responsibility for the July 2016 truck attack in Nice as well as the double killings of two French police officials at their home in Magnanville.
— AP
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