A helicopter raid by US forces in northern Syria early on Monday resulted within the “possible loss of life” of a senior chief of the militant Islamic State group, the US army mentioned.
The US Central Command mentioned in an announcement that the IS chief, who was not named, was “answerable for planning terror assaults within the Center East and Europe”.
Two different “armed people” had been killed together with the goal of the raid, CENTCOM mentioned.
The assertion mentioned no civilians or US troops had been damage within the operation.
Syria’s White Helmets, a civil protection group working in opposition-held areas of northern Syria, mentioned it transported two individuals wounded through the raid to a neighborhood hospital, which later mentioned they’d died.
A 3rd particular person was killed when the US forces landed for the raid, the White Helmets mentioned.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which companions with the US in anti-IS operations in north-east Syria, mentioned that the operation was launched from a base close to the city of Kobani and focused a army web site belonging to a Turkish-backed armed opposition group, Suqour al-Shamal, within the village of Suwayda within the area of Jarablus, close to the Turkish border.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based battle monitor, reported that the raid had resulted within the arrest of a senior IS chief and killed three individuals.
The US army made no point out of any arrests.
The Observatory mentioned “violent clashes” happened after the helicopter landed, the primary such touchdown this 12 months.
No less than 900 US troops are deployed in Syria, together with an undisclosed variety of contractors.
The Islamic State group, which swept by way of Iraq and Syria in 2014, taking management of enormous swathes of territory, was defeated in Syria in 2019, however sleeper cells preserve a presence and periodically stage assaults on army and civilian targets.
