AL-HUMAYRAH, Syria: According to witnesses, U.S. forces saw Islamic State’s senior group bomb makers plunge into an isolated house dominated by rebels in northwestern Syria in a pre-dawn attack on Thursday. He said he was caught. War monitors and AFP correspondents said two military helicopters landed for just a few minutes and several ammunition were fired in a village in a Turkish-backed rebel-controlled area.
“The captured individual is an experienced bomb maker and operational facilitator who has become one of the top leaders in Daesh’s Syrian branch,” using the IS alias with the Syrian and Iraqi jihadist groups. A US-led coalition that is fighting. The coalition did not nominate a target in the statement, but coalition officials told AFP that the one of them was Raqqa’s IS leader when it was the de facto capital of Syria’s IS. Said that.
Such operations by the US military are rare in parts of northwestern Syria under the control of Turkey-backed rebels and non-IS jihadist groups. A previous special forces attack in early February killed group leader Abu Ibrahim alkrasi. Abu Ibrahim alkrasi detonated the vest of bombs to avoid capture. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war watchdog with a vast network of sources on the ground, was unable to confirm the identity of the IS operatives captured on Thursday.
Observatory chief Lami Abdel Rahman told AFP that two military helicopters landed on Alfmyra and took off seven minutes later. “The US operation was swift and smooth,” he added, adding that it took place in the village of Alfmaila, northeast of Aleppo, four kilometers from the Turkish border.
The coalition said, “The mission was planned with great care to minimize the risk of collateral damage, especially potential harm to civilians.” There was no damage to coalition planes or property. “Mohamed Youssef, a witness to the local assault, said he had targeted a house on the outskirts of a village where refugees lived from the Syrian city of Aleppo. Stated.
He reported busy activities in the sky during night surgery. “About eight aircraft flew for over an hour and a half,” he said. “When they left, we headed home, and found the women tied up and the children in a nearby field.” He said the women were “Fawaz” by the Allies. He said he told them he had arrested a man named.
Others told AFP that about four men and six women lived in the house, but they weren’t sure if they were a family and weren’t mixed with the rest of the village. Other witnesses told AFP that a pro-Turkish Syrian group had arrested two other men after surgery. After the IS lost its last territory in March 2019 following a military attack backed by a US-led coalition, the remnants of Syria retreated mostly to desert hideouts.
Since then, IS Cell has ambushed Kurdish-led troops and the Syrian government or Allied forces, and has launched similar attacks in Iraq. However, the group’s top leaders often cover areas dominated by other units. Classi’s infamous predecessor, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a US Special Forces raid in northwestern Syria, far from the IS operations area.
Little is known about the new leader, Abhasan Alhashemial Classi. Abu Hasan Al-Hashemi Al-Krassi is the third chief since the founding of the Jihadist group. According to media reports, he was not confirmed to have been captured in Istanbul last month, and Turkish officials only told AFP that a senior but unidentified IS member had been detained.
Observers have long feared the resurgence of IS in the badlands that straddled the Iraq-Syrian border and formed the center of the once vast group of primitive nations. However, due to the constant pressure of coalition on its leadership and funding sources, the jihadist group has not yet held a fixed position in either country, and the intensity of the attack has changed little since 2019. – AFP
