Photo Credit: Amaq Agency / ISIS
Amaq Agency announcing Wilayat Sinai launched rocket attack against Israel on Feb. 20, 2017

The founder of the Amaq news outlet of the Islamic State (ISIS/Da’esh) terrorist organization was allegedly killed this week in a U.S.-led coalition air strike.

“I’m pleased to announce the martyrdom of my older brother Bara’a Kadek, known as Rayan Mesha’al . . . in an air strike by the coalition,” wrote the terrorist’s brother in a post Wednesday on Facebook. The post went on to say that Mesha’al was killed together with his daughter at their home in the city of al-Mayadin.

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The air strike took place in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor, according to Reuters, but the news agency could not independently confirm the death, and there was no comment from the coalition force.

According to Rita Katz, director of the U.S.-based SITE jihad monitoring service, Mesha’al was indeed killed by the strike in Deir al-Zor. No further information has yet been made available.

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Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.