A member loyal to ISIS waves an ISIS flag in Raqqa, Syria, June 29, 2014. (File photo: Reuters)
US army kills senior ISIS official in Syria
The US Central Command said on Wednesday it had conducted an airstrike in Syria that killed a senior ISIS official and facilitator named Usamah Jamal Muhammad Ibrahim al-Janabi.
“His death will disrupt ISIS’s ability to resource and conduct terror attacks,” it said in a statement on X.
It said: “There is no indication any civilians were harmed in this strike.”
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Last Wednesday, sixteen Syrian soldiers, including an officer, have been killed in a minefield laid by ISIS and an attack by the group in the desert, a monitor said.
The soldiers were “killed after they found themselves in a minefield and an attack by members of the ISIS group,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
A United Nations report released in January said ISIS’ combined strength in Iraq and Syria was between 3,000 and 5,000 fighters, with the Badia desert serving as a logistics and operations hub for the group in Syria.
According to the UN, more than 14 million people are at risk from explosive ordnance contamination in Syria.
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