The "dynamic strike" executed Muhsin al-Fadhli on July 8 while he was going in a vehicle close Sarmada, Syria, Pentagon representative Commander Jeff Davis said.
He didn't affirm whether an automaton or a kept an eye on flying machine had executed Fadhli.
Fadhli was supposedly the pioneer of the Khorasan Bunch, a gathering of senior Al-Qaeda individuals who have gone from Focal Asia and somewhere else in the Center East to Syria to plot assaults on the West.
Authorities say Khorasan is a piece of Al-Qaeda's Syrian branch, Al-Nusra Front, however specialists and activists give occasion to feel qualms about the refinement between the two gatherings.
Fadhli "was a senior Al-Qaeda facilitator who was among the few trusted Al-Qaeda pioneers who got advance warning of the September 11, 2001, terrorist assaults on the United States," said Commander Jeff Davis, a Safeguard Division representative.
"His passing will debase and disturb progressing outer operations of Al-Qaeda against the United States and its associates and accomplices."
Davis, who heads the Barrier Office's press operations, said Fadhli was additionally included in October 2002 assaults against US Marines on Kuwait's Failaka Island and on the MV Limburg, a French oil tanker.
He was accounted for to have been beforehand focused in a US air strike in September, yet his demise was not affirmed by US authorities at the time.
The US State Office had posted a $7 million prize for data prompting Fadhli's demise or confinement.
He was needed by law requirement dominant presences in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United States for terrorist exercises.