The U.S. military says an Islamic State (IS) leader with direct links to the alleged ringleader of last month’s terrorist attacks in Paris was killed in a coalition airstrike in Syria.

A coalition spokesman, Colonel Steve Warren, said in a news briefing Tuesday that Charaffe al-Mouadan was killed last week on December 24.

He said Mouadan had ties to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, believed to be the leader of the cell that coordinated the Paris attacks, which left at least 130 people dead. Abaaoud was killed in a police raid a few days after the on November 13 Paris attacks.

Warren said Moudan was “actively planning additional attacks against the West,” but did not specify if he was targeting the U.S. or Europe or both.

Warren noted that a total of 10 Islamic State “leadership figures” have been killed in coalition airstrikes in the past month.

“As long as ISIL (IS) external attack planners are operating, the U.S. military will hunt them and kill them,” he said.

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