(Daily Beast) Kimberly Dozier - U.S. special operations forces have quietly killed 40 key ISIS operatives blamed for plotting deadly attacks in Europe and beyond, defense officials said. The U.S. counterterrorist mission is credited with crippling ISIS efforts to recruit foreign fighters and carry out more plots like the deadly assault on Paris that killed 130 last fall. Most of the ISIS targets were killed in Syria by combat aircraft, but also by troops who attempted to capture a handful of high-value ISIS targets. All of those targets resisted arrest and were killed, officials said.
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