US air strike 'kills militant linked to 2012 Benghazi attack'

A US air strike has killed an Islamic State militant believed to have been involved in an attack of a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012, the Pentagon has said.

The air strike on Mosul, Iraq, on June 15 killed Ali Awni al-Harzi who has been named as a "person of interest" in the Benghazi attack which left the US ambassador to Libya and three other American citizens dead.