Acourding to BBC news, Some were linked to last month's attacks in Paris and planning further attacks on the West, US Army Colonel Steve Warren added. He named one as Charaffe al-Mouadan, who he said had a direct link to Paris attack cell leader Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Another was a UK-educated Bangladeshi computer systems engineer, he said. The US-led coalition has been targeting IS in Iraq and Syria for over a year. Russia recently began its own air attacks against armed opponents of the Syrian government, including IS.
