FROM FOX NEWS: The U.S. military carried out a raid in northern Syria on Tuesday, killing a senior ISIS figure who had been poised to become the group’s next leader in the country, a U.S. official told Fox News.
A key ISIS financial official was also killed in the operation, the official said, noting that both men had been actively planning attacks in Syria and Iraq. No U.S. forces were injured.
[A] U.S. official [told] Fox News the raid was described as a “successful operation” targeting a senior ISIS member assessed to be a strong candidate to assume the role of ISIS Syria Emir, a position that would have posed a direct threat to U.S. and Coalition forces as well as the new Syrian government.
The operation is part of continued U.S. counterterrorism efforts in the region following ISIS’s territorial defeat in Syria and Iraq in 2019.
“We will continue to pursue ISIS terrorists with unwavering determination throughout the region,” an official told Fox News.
The mission was completed without injury or death to civilians, U.S. forces, or Coalition forces.
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