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Biden says IS leader killed during US raid in Syria
By GHAITH ALSAYED, LOLITA C. BALDOR, BASSEM MROUE and ZEKE MILLER16 minutes agoATMEH, Syria (AP) — The leader of the violent Islamic State group was killed during an overnight raid carried out by U.S. special forces in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, President Joe Biden said Thursday.
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ISIS leader killed in U.S. raid in Syria
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi was killed; witnesses say civilians died in related violenceThomson Reuters · Posted: Feb 03, 2022 9:05 AM ET | Last Updated: 35 minutes ago
People inspect the roof of a destroyed house following an operation by the U.S. military in the Syrian village of Atmeh, in Idlib province, Syria. The Pentagon declared it a successful mission that led to the death of the ISIS leader. (Ghaith Alsayed/The Associated Press)
U.S. special forces have killed the leader of the jihadist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a raid in northwest Syria, President Joe Biden said on Thursday.
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi was killed in the operation, the U.S. administration said. Rescue workers said at least 13 people also died, including women and children.
"Thanks to the skill and bravery of our armed forces, we have taken off the battlefield … the leader of ISIS. All Americans have returned safely from the operation," Biden said in a statement.
Quraishi succeeded Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who led the group when it took over swaths of Syria and Iraq, ruling over millions of people at the height of its self-declared caliphate.
A Syrian man rides his motorcycle along damaged shops after the operation by the U.S. military in the Syrian village of Atmeh in Idlib province. (Ghaith Alsayed/The Associated Press)
Baghdadi was killed in Oct. 2019 by U.S. troops — also in a raid in north Syria — after ISIS fighters were defeated on the battlefield. The group is now waging insurgent attacks in Iraq and Syria.
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby earlier described Thursday's raid as a successful counterterrorism mission, saying there were no U.S. casualties.
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Residents said helicopters landed and heavy gunfire and explosions were heard during the raid that began around midnight. U.S. forces used loud speakers to warn women and children to leave the area, they said.
Action comes on heels of prison break
The U.S.-led coalition has targeted high-profile militants on several occasions in recent years, aiming to disrupt what U.S. officials say is a secretive cell known as the Khorasan group that is planning external attacks. A U.S. airstrike killed al-Qaeda's second in command, former bin Laden aide Abu al-Kheir al-Masri, in Syria in 2017.U.S. military procedures to guard against civilian casualties are currently under scrutiny, however, following a high-profile mistaken drone strike in Afghanistan that the Pentagon initially hailed a success.
A number of jihadist groups with links to al-Qaeda operate in northwestern Syria, the last major bastion of rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad in the decade-long Syrian war. Leaders of ISIS have also hidden out in the area.
Last month, it carried out its biggest military operation since it was defeated and its members scattered underground in 2019: an attack on a prison in northeast Syria holding at least 3,000 ISIS detainees. The attack appeared aimed to break free senior ISIS operatives in the prison.
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A senior Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) official, Nowruz Ahmad, said Monday that the prison assault was part of a broader plot that ISIS had been preparing for a long time, including attacks on other neighbourhoods in Kurdish-run northeastern Syria and on the al-Hol camp in the south, which houses thousands of families of ISIS members.
With files from The Associated Press
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