...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) in an
...KABOOM!...
in Syria, on the same day that American forces eliminated another prominent ISIS official in the country.
"U.S. forces conducted a successful airstrike in northern Syria, killing both Abu-Hashum al-Umawi, a deputy Wali of Syria, and another senior ISIS official associated with him," the American military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said.
CENTCOM added that the operation did not cause any civilian casualties and its forces conducted the task unscathed.
"This strike will degrade ISIS’ ability to destabilize the region and strike at our forces and partners," General Michael "Erik" Kurilla, the CENTCOM commander, said about the operation. "Our forces remain in the region to ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS."
US forces earlier in the day carried out a raid in a part of northeast Syria (Rojava) controlled by the Syrian government south of the Kurdish-held city of Qamishli, killing an ISIS official and wounding two of his associates.
CENTCOM later confirmed on Twitter that the raid had taken down "Rakkan Wahid al-Shammri, an ISIS official known to facilitate the smuggling of weapons and fighters to support ISIS operations."
"During the operation, the targeted individual was killed and one of his associates was maimed. Two additional associates were detained by U.S. forces," the statement added.
The two operations are the latest in a series of US attacks against senior ISIS officials, with the terror group continuing to pose a serious threat to Syria and Iraq despite being territorially defeated.
A July dronezap by American forces in the country’s northwest killed Maher al-Agal, the leader of ISIS in Syria, five months after a secret US operation took down the terror group’s top leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi again in northwest Syria’s Idlib, a region largely controlled by rebel groups backed by
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
| Expanding on this Daily Mail link Skidmark gave us in comments two days ago: |
- US special forces killed two ISIS leaders in an airstrike Thursday evening
- Officials say the operation killed Abu 'Ala, a deputy leader of ISIS in Syria, and Abu Mu'Ad al Qahtani, an ISIS official responsible for 'prisoner affairs'
- It comes hours after they carried out a raid deep in government -controlled territory in Syria and killed a commander
- Authorities said they were successful in that raid of killing Rakkan Wahid al-Shammri, a weapons dealer
- He is believed to have killed an American officer in an ISIS controlled area
- Officials say he was responsible for coordinating sleeper cells
- Several other people were captured by US forces in the raid, reports state
US Central Command forces killed #ISIS leader Rakan Wahid al-Shammari in a helicopter raid in #Qamishli region in North East Syria which is under the control of #Assad regime.https://t.co/qCN9leN11G pic.twitter.com/NbHZOOlxaj
— SAMRI (@SAMRIReports) October 6, 2022
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