Syria says senior ISIL commander killed in Damascus countryside raid

Interior Ministry says the raid killed Mohammed Shahadeh, describing him arsenic 1 of ISIL’s elder commanders successful Syria.

Syrian authorities accidental information forces person carried retired a 2nd cognition against ISIL (ISIS) fighters adjacent Damascus, sidesplitting a elder fig described arsenic the group’s politician of Hauran.

In a connection connected Thursday, the Ministry of Interior said the raid killed Mohammed Shahadeh, besides known arsenic Abu Omar Shaddad, calling him 1 of ISIL’s elder commanders successful Syria and a nonstop menace to section security.

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Officials said the cognition followed verified quality and extended surveillance and was carried retired by specialised units, operating successful the Damascus countryside, that conducted a targeted raid successful the municipality of al-Buweida, adjacent Qatana, southwest of the capital.

The cognition besides progressive the General Intelligence Directorate and took spot successful coordination with planetary conjugation forces, the ministry said.

‘Crippling blow’

The announcement came a time aft Syrian interior information forces arrested different elder ISIL fig successful a abstracted cognition adjacent Damascus, according to the state-run SANA quality agency.

SANA reported that forces arrested Taha al-Zoubi during what it described arsenic a “tightly executed information operation” successful the Damascus countryside. The bureau said officers seized “a termination loop and a subject weapon” during the arrest.

Brigadier General Ahmad al-Dalati, caput of interior information successful the Damascus countryside, told SANA that the raid targeted an ISIL hideout successful Maadamiya, southwest of the capital.

ISIL, which considers the existent authorities successful Damascus illegitimate, has mostly focused its remaining operations connected Kurdish-led forces successful bluish Syria.

At the tallness of its power, the equipped radical controlled immense areas of Iraq and Syria, declaring Raqqa its capital.

Although ISIL suffered subject decision successful Iraq successful 2017 and successful Syria 2 years later, its cells proceed to transportation retired attacks successful the portion and beyond, including successful parts of Africa and Afghanistan.