US Forces Carry Out Raid In Northern Syria
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Al Jazeera on MSNUS-led coalition captures a senior ISIL (ISIS) member in Syria: State media
A US-led coalition has captured a senior member of the ISIL (ISIS) group in northwest Syria, the SANA state news agency and a war monitor have reported, while another Syrian security source and Syria’s state-owned Al-Ekhbariya said the man targeted was killed as he tried to escape.
A senior figure of the ISIS group has been seized in a US-led coalition operation in northwest Syria, according to reports from Syrian state media and a war monitor. But confusion remains after another Syrian security source claimed the man was killed while attempting to flee.
The group's ultimate goal is to establish a “caliphate” in Central Africa, similar to ISIS’s vision in Iraq and Syria. A massacre of Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has spotlighted the growing threat of extremist groups operating across Central Africa.
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U.S. troops have withdrawn from the outpost in Syria where a handful of American special operators and Marines fought off an assault by Russian mercenaries in 2018, a battle in which the American troops left a force 10 times their size scattered across the desert battlefield.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Syria’s interior ministry said on Thursday that security forces arrested a suspected Islamic State (ISIS) cell in the northwestern Idlib province, accused of assassinating five Iraqi nationals.