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2022-10-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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US special forces conduct midnight raid deep in government-held area of Syria killing 'ISIS leader' and taking several others captive
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[Daily Mail, where America get its news] - US special forces carry out raid deep in govt-controlled territory, it's reported
- The operation killed one person, thought to be an ISIS leader, in Syria's northeast
- Several other people were captured by US forces in the raid, reports state
- A resident named the victim as Rakan Abu Hayel, from nearby Hassakeh provence
Local sources said that US troops landed in the village Muluk Saray in the countryside of the Qamishli region in northeast Syria, where territory is controlled in part by US-backed Kurdish fighters and partly by the Russia-backed government.
Sources told news channel Al Mayadeen that the victim was named Rakan Abu Hayel, originally from the village of Tuwaimin in the eastern countryside.
The family of the slain man and members of another family were arrested and taken into US custody, they claim, with some saying that at least two of those captured were part of a pro-Assad militia — though that remains unconfirmed.
Security officials later told Reuters that the man killed was 'a key IS leader present' responsible for coordination among the ISIS sleeper cells in the area.
The unnamed source added: 'This operation aims to expand the scope of targeting this organization's members across different parts of Syria.'
More information about the raid is expected to be provided in the coming hours, Central Command officials told DailyMail.com.
Unnamed sources originally told Syrian news channel Al Mayadeen that US occupation forces 'carried out a landing operation using several helicopters in the village of Muluk Saray, in the southern countryside of Qamishli, and killed one person.'
But a local village resident had said the victim was Hayel, a little-known displaced person from ISIS stronghold Hassakeh.
The resident said that three US helicopters carrying troops had landed in the overnight operation near the Turkish border.
'They used loudspeakers to call on residents to stay indoors' during the operation,' the resident said.
He added that the operation lasted several hours, and there was no exchange of gunfire with American troops.
During the operation, US forces engaged in a firefight with auxiliary forces of the Syrian army, according to the Russian news agency Sputnik. There are no reports of casualties.
Around 50 US special forces soldiers in 13 helicopters were reported to be involved in the daring raid.
The person killed in the operation 'had been a resident of the area for years and is likely an Islamic State' group leader, the Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights said.
It is the first such operation in government-held territory, the war monitoring group added, which relies on a wide network of sources in Syria.
The village targeted lies 17 kilometers (10 miles) south of the city of Qamishli, which is controlled by Syrian government forces, according to the Observatory and AFP correspondents.
In July, the Pentagon said it killed Syria's a top IS jihadist in a drone strike in the northern part of the country.
CENTCOM said he had been 'one of the top five' leaders of Islamic State overall.
The July strike came five months after a nighttime US raid in the town of Atmeh, which led to the death of the overall Islamic State leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi. The one-legged ISIS chief had rigged his house with explosives and blew himself and his family to pieces when US Special Forces arrived, because his disability stopped him using a suicide vest. Officials believe al-Qurashi, who was tracked down after a drone spotted him bathing on the building's roof last year, himself detonated the explosives that killed him and his family at his home in the sleepy village of Atmeh near the Turkish border on February 2.
They also revealed officials had thought they had a good chance of taking al-Qurayshi alive because of his issues with a suicide belt and had made plans to turn him over to another government.
The troops safely brought four children from the second floor out of the house. But a toddler was found dead there. Officials said the child was likely killed by the concussive effects of the third-floor explosion and not shot in the gunfight.
An ISIS member, described as a lieutenant of al-Qurashi's, and his wife were on the second floor, with as many as five children. All are believed to have been killed in the blast.
After losing their last territory following a military onslaught backed by the US-led coalition in March 2019, the remnants of IS in Syria mostly retreated into desert hideouts. They have since used such hideouts to ambush Kurdish-led forces and Syrian government troops while continuing to mount attacks in Iraq.
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