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US military kills senior ISIL leader, 4 US troops injured

By Khadar Aweys
Last updated: February 18, 2023
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SONNA – The United States military has said it killed a “senior” ISIL (ISIS) leader in a raid in northeastern Syria as Washington continues its targeting of the group.

The Middle East-based US Central Command (CENTCOM) of the American military announced the operation on Friday, saying that four soldiers were injured during the raid, which was carried out in coordination with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The military said “an explosion on target resulted in four US service members and one working dog wounded” during a helicopter raid in northeastern Syria on Thursday.

“The targeted ISIS senior leader, Hamza al-Homsi, was killed,” CENTCOM said.

Later on Friday White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said al-Homsi “was overseeing the group’s deadly terrorist network in eastern Syria”.

He added that the four soldiers and the dog were in stable condition and receiving treatment in a US medical facility in Iraq.

“No civilians were on the target or injured in the operation,” a CENTCOM spokesperson said, adding that another “ISIS assassination cell leader” was killed in a separate raid on Thursday night, without providing further details.

The raid came less than a month after US forces killed Bilal al-Sudani, an ISIL leader in Somalia, whom Washington described as a “key facilitator for ISIS’s global network”.

US forces killed ISIL’s first top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a raid in northern Syria in 2019.  His successor Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was also killed in Syria in a similar US operation last year.

ISIL controlled large swaths of land in Iraq and Syria from 2014 until its territorial defeat late in 2017. During that time, the group, which had declared a “caliphate” and inspired attacks on civilian targets across the world, attracted thousands of foreign fighters, including from Europe and the US.

Source: AlJazeera

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