The US military said on Tuesday it had carried out an airstrike on Monday that killed a senior Islamic State leader in northwestern Syria.

US Central Command commander Michael Corella said in a statement that the dead man was identified as Khalid Iyad Ahmed al-Jubouri and that he was "responsible for planning attacks for ISIS in Europe."

Al-Jubouri's death will temporarily disrupt Islamic State's ability to plan external attacks, he said, but stressed that the group "is still able to lead operations in the region, with a desire to strike areas outside the Middle East".

The targeted leader helped develop the structure of the group, which in 2014 took control of large swathes of Syria and Iraq before being expelled, he said.

U.S. Central Command confirmed that the air strike did not kill or injure civilians.

For its part, the Civil Defense in areas under the control of the Syrian opposition said that one person was killed yesterday in an air strike by a drone in the country of Kelly in the northern countryside of Idlib.

The Civil Defense added through its accounts on social networking sites that its teams provided ambulance to the person targeted by the drone and transferred him to Bab Al-Hawa Hospital to die there.

In February, the US military announced that it had killed ISIS leader Hamza al-Homsi during a joint operation with the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria, and wounded 4 US soldiers in the operation.

Before that, other IS leaders were killed in drone strikes or landings.

Among the most prominent people killed in US operations in Syria were the organization's former leaders Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in October 2019, and Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi in February 2022 in Idlib province (northwest).

Islamic State, which in 2014 controlled large areas of Syria and Iraq, suffered first defeat in Iraq in 2017 and then in Syria in 2019, losing all of its main areas of control. However, its members in hiding continue to carry out attacks, albeit limited, in both countries, especially against security forces, and the group claims attacks in other countries.