US forces have killed two top ISIS leaders in an airstrike in northern Syria, according to two defense officials, one day after a US raid killed an ISIS smuggler.
The strike killed Abu ‘Ala, one of the top five
weapons smuggler on Wednesday night local time, the Pentagon announced in a statement Thursday. “Last night, U.S. Central Command forces conducted a helicopter raid in northeast Syria, near the village of Qamishli, targeting Rakkan Wahid al-Shammri, an operations. One of the defense officials said the raid was a unilateral US operation and didn’t involve the coalition to defeat
spokesman Col. Joe Buccino said in a statement. Earlier on Thursday the Pentagon said a senior leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Qurayshi was named the terrorist group’s leader in November 2019 at the same time
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