Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, "second in command" to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in Aleppo. The Counter Extremism Project lists Adnani as the leader of ISIS's Emni group, a unit that orchestrates attacks outside of the Middle East. The U.S. State Department named him a terrorist in 2014 and later described him as "the main conduit for the dissemination of ISIL messages."