U.S. says drone strike took out Paris attack-linked Islamic State pair in Raqqa

WASHINGTON – A coalition drone strike in Syria killed three Islamic State group leaders involved in plotting foreign attacks, including two men who helped facilitate last year's attacks in Paris, the Pentagon said Tuesday. "The three were working together to plot and facilitate attacks against Western targets at the time of the strike," Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement. They were killed in a Dec. 4 airstrike in Raqqa, an IS group stronghold in Syria. Two of those killed -- Salah-Eddine Gourmat and Sammy Djedou -- were involved in facilitating the Nov. 13, 2015, Paris attacks, in which 130 people died, Cook said. Gourmat was a French national and Djedou, Belgian.