Monitoring Desk
BEIRUT: The US military said on Friday that a helicopter raid led by its security forces in northeast Syria left a senior leader of the Daesh group dead and four American troops injured.
The military said in the short statement that the operation was conducted on Thursday night in collaboration with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which is allied with the United States.
It added that “a blast on target resulted in four US service members and one working dog wounded.” It did not say which part of northeast Syria the raid was carried out.
The military identified the killed Daesh commander as Hamza Al-Homsi.
Despite their defeat in Syria, Daesh sleeper cells still carry out attacks around Iraq and Syria, where they once declared a “caliphate.”
US forces and SDF fighters joint operations in Syria
Joint operations between the forces and SDF fighters occur every day in northeast and eastern Syria along the border with Iraq.
The military said the service members and working dogs are receiving treatment in a US medical facility in neighboring Iraq.
The US military killed two Daesh leaders in Syria over the past few years.
In February 2021, Abu Ibrahim Al-Hashimi Al-Qurayshi was killed in a US raid in northwest Syria. The Americans hunted down Daesh founder Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in an attack in October 2019.
In October, the leader of Daesh, Abu Al-Hassan Al-Hashimi Al-Qurayshi, was killed in a battle with Syrian rebels in southern Syria.
