Islamic State Leader With Direct Tie To The Paris Attacks Killed In Syria Airstrike: U.S. Military - The U.S.-led military coalition against the Islamic State killed a main leader in Syria who had direct relations with the terrorists who carried out the attacks in Paris and was planning more attacks against the West, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Talking to reporters Army Col. Steve Warren, the top spokesman for the coalition said that Charaffe al Mouadan was killed Dec. 24 in an airstrike. He declined to say where in Syria the attack happened, and described it as part of a series of attacks carried out since Dec. 7.

The verification of Mouadan's death comes a day after Iraqi security forces raised their country's flag on a government compound in Ramadi, Iraq, which they held from the militants after a multi-day battle in and around the city. Some neighborhoods in Ramadi remain in Islamic State control, but Warren said the majority of the fighters have either been killed or run away.

All 10 of the Islamic State leaders killed and named on Tuesday were under attack mostly using unmanned aircraft, Warren said.

The other nine include Rawand Dilsher Taher, an external operations leader who was killed in Raqqa, Syria; Khalil Ahmad Ali al-Wais, also known as Abu Wadhah, who was killed near Hawijah, Iraq, on Dec. 7; Abu Anas, an Islamic State cell facilitator was killed Dec. 8 near Kirkuk, Iraq; Yunish Khalash, also known as Abu Jawdat, was killed Dec. 9; Mithaq Najim, The Islamic State's deputy emir in Kirkuk province, was killed Dec. 9 near Hawijah, Iraq; Siful Haque Sujan, a Syria-based Bangladeshi, was killed near Raqqa on Dec. 10; Akram Muhammad Sa'ad Faris, also known as Akram Aabu, an Islamic State commander and executioner, was killed Dec. 12 near his base of operations in Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq; Abdel Kader Hakim, another Islamic State external operations leader, was killed in Mosul on Dec. 26 and Tashin al-Haali, another external operations facilitator, was killed near Mosul on Dec. 27.