US-led coalition captures a senior ISIL (ISIS) member in Syria: State media

It is not yet known if the antheral targeted mightiness beryllium ISIL’s ultimate leader, Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.

A US-led conjugation has captured a elder subordinate of the ISIL (ISIS) radical successful northwest Syria, the SANA authorities quality bureau and a warfare show person reported, portion different Syrian information root and Syria’s state-owned Al-Ekhbariya said the antheral targeted was killed arsenic helium tried to escape.

It was not instantly wide connected Tuesday if the antheral mightiness beryllium ISIL’s ultimate leader. Two years ago, ISIL announced that a antheral called Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi was named arsenic its caller person aft Turkish authorities killed his predecessor. The United States subject did not respond to a petition for remark by The Associated Press quality agency.

The cognition that included landing troops from helicopters occurred earlier dawn successful Atmeh municipality adjacent the Turkish border, and an ISIL commandant known arsenic Abu Hafs al-Qurashi, an Iraqi citizen, was taken distant portion different Iraqi national was killed, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

SOHR said the antheral captured had a French-speaking pistillate with him, and it was not instantly wide if she was taken by the US forces oregon by Syrian information forces who aboriginal cordoned disconnected the area.

Syrian authorities TV connected Wednesday quoted an unnamed information authoritative arsenic saying the Iraqi antheral targeted successful the cognition is known arsenic Ali, adding that his existent sanction is Salah Noman. The study said that Noman was surviving successful an flat with his wife, lad and mother. It said helium was killed successful the raid. There was nary contiguous clarification astir the quality successful names reported by authorities media and the warfare monitor.

It was the 2nd known raid successful bluish Syria by US troops since longtime person Bashar al-Assad was ousted successful December. The authorities led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa, which replaced him, has pledged to forestall a resurgence of ISIL and is portion of an anti-ISIL confederation that includes the US-led conjugation warring the group.

In precocious July, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces killed a elder ISIL person and his 2 sons affiliated with the radical successful Syria’s Aleppo region, the US subject has said. CENTCOM said astatine the clip that it “conducted a raid resulting successful the decease of elder ISIS Leader, Dhiya’ Zawba Muslih al-Hardani, and his 2 big ISIS-affiliated sons, Abdallah Dhiya al-Hardani and Abd al-Rahman Dhiya Zawba al-Hardani”.

In precocious May, ISIL claimed work for an attack connected the Syrian army, representing the equipped group’s archetypal onslaught astatine authorities forces since the autumn of al-Assad, according to analysts.

In a connection regarding that attack, ISIL said its fighters had planted an explosive instrumentality that struck a “vehicle of the apostate regime” successful confederate Syria.

ISIL, which views the caller authorities successful Damascus led by al-Sharaa arsenic illegitimate, has chiefly concentrated its activities against Kurdish forces successful the north.

At its peak, ISIL ruled an country fractional the size of the United Kingdom, spanning crossed Iraq and Syria, with Raqqa successful the second being the superior of the equipped group’s self-declared “caliphate”.

The radical was notorious for its brutality, carrying retired massacres of Syrians and Iraqis and beheading of overseas captives. ISIL’s massacres included those of thousands of the Yazidi people and the radical besides enslaved thousands of Yazidi women. The Yazidis, a long-persecuted radical whose religion is rooted successful Zoroastrianism, are inactive recovering from the horrors of ISIL’s onslaught connected their assemblage successful Iraq’s Sinjar territory successful 2014.

ISIL was defeated successful Iraq successful 2017 and successful Syria 2 years later, but its fighters and cadres of militants inactive transportation retired deadly attacks successful some countries and elsewhere, including successful Africa and Afghanistan.

A deadly onslaught connected Mar Elias Church successful Damascus successful June killed astatine slightest 25 people, aft a antheral with a firearm entered the religion and changeable astatine worshippers, earlier detonating a termination bomb.

The Syrian Interior Ministry blamed ISIL for the attack, though different radical called Saraya Ansar al-Sunna aboriginal claimed it.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies