“US (armed) forces conducted a successful airstrike in northern Syria on Thursday, killing Abu Hashum al-Umawi and another IS operative,” USCENTCOM (Central Command), the US military’s joint command, said in a press release. responsible for the Middle East region).
A few hours after a rare raid by US special forces, the US military announced that an airstrike it launched in Syria had resulted in the killing of two high-ranking officials of the Islamic State jihadist group.
“US (armed) forces conducted a successful airstrike in northern Syria on Thursday, killing Abu Hashum al-Umawi and another IS operative,” USCENTCOM (Central Command), the US military’s joint command, said in a press release. responsible for the Middle East region).
“This strike will reduce the ability of IS to destabilize the region and harm our forces and our partners,” said Gen. Michael Kurila, the head of CENTCOM.
The US military also assured that, according to the information available to it, “no civilians were killed or injured” in the drone strike.
Earlier, the same source announced that American forces had killed another IS operative, in a raid by members of the American Special Forces with helicopters in northeastern Syria, in an area controlled by government forces, as far as is known without informing Damascus, which characterizes the action of the US military on its territory illegal.
The US continues to target leaders of the jihadist group, which, despite defeats suffered in 2017 in Iraq and 2019 in Syria, continues to carry out bloody attacks in both countries.
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