A senior Islamic State leader who coordinated suicide bombings and recruited funds and fighters for the jihadists has been killed in a coalition air strike in Syria, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Tariq bin Tahar al-Awni al-Harzi was killed in the northern city of Shaddadi on June 16, Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis said in a statement.
His brother Ali, an IS recruiter and person of interest in the 2012 Benghazi attack, was killed by an air strike in Iraq a day earlier.
Washington had put a $3-million bounty on the head of Harzi, a 33-year-old Tunisian, and described him in the past as the IS group's "emir of suicide bombers."
As of late 2013, Harzi was a key figure in suicide and car bombings in Iraq, the U.S. says.
The Pentagon said his killing was a significant blow to the Islamic State group.