WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Cook confirmed that the airstrike was conducted on April 22 against two Daesh targets in Syria that were engaged in terrorist plots against the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom and were alos recruiting foreign fighters.
"This was a strike carried out against a target [in Syria] that we believe not only had plotted in the past against Western interests, including the United States, but had the potential to do the same again," Cook stated.
Sudanese national Abu Saeed al-Sudani and his wife, an Australian national, Shadi Jabhar Khalil Mohammad, were killed in the airstrike, Cook added.
The Defense Department would not release intelligence-related details on the operation and on whether the husband and wife were planning attacks inside the United States, according to Cook.
