An Islamic State provincial administrator was taken in Syria on Saturday by helicopter-borne US troops working with Syrian Kurdish-led forces, according to the US military.
The US military’s Central Command stated that the IS officer, who went by the name, Batar, was “involved in planning attacks on… detention centers and manufacturing improvised explosive devices.”
The action, which was supported by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, did not result in the deaths or injuries of civilians or American personnel.
The attack was carried out a day after four American soldiers were hurt during a different raid to assassinate a senior IS group leader in northeastern Syria, according to CENTCOM.
An IS senior named Hamza al-Homsi was killed in the mission, CENTCOM reported, and he “oversaw the group’s lethal terrorist network in eastern Syria.”
Washington is the leader of an international coalition against IS and regularly launches raids and strikes against the organization.
IS remnants in Syria primarily withdrew into desert hideouts in the country’s east after the jihadists lost their last area to local Kurdish-led troops supported by the coalition in 2019.
