US President Joe Biden announced that the special operation carried out by the United States last night in northwestern Syria culminated in the liquidation of ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurashi.
Biden said in a statement White House Via their website: “As directed by me, US military forces in northwest Syria have successfully conducted a counter-terrorism operation to protect the American people and our allies and to make the world a safer place.”
He declared that, “Thanks to the skill and courage of our armed forces, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi, the leader of ISIS, was removed from the battlefield,” stressing that no American casualties were caused in the operation.
And press reports confirmed that, during the operation, US helicopters carried out a landing of a group of Special Forces members in the Atma area located in the northern countryside of Idlib, near the Turkish border and the Deir Ballut crossing between Idlib and the Afrin region.
According to reports, the operation targeted a house in this area and violent clashes erupted, accompanied by aerial bombardment and at least one powerful explosion.
And the Wall Street Journal reported earlier today, Thursday, that “the location of the reported raid is a building located about 15 miles from the village of Barisha in Syria where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in October 2019 in a raid carried out by the United States.” “.
Syrian sources loyal to and opposed to the government reported that at least 13 people were killed during the operation, including six children and three or four women.
During the operation, the US Army lost one of its helicopters, which was destroyed on the ground when it was forced to land due to a mechanical problem.
Source: RT + agencies
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