On Tuesday, the Pentagon announced that a U.S. drone strike killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Syria.

On this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,” the senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, Hans-Jakob Schindler, explains who he was and why he was so important.

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