The US military announced on Saturday that it has captured a local leader of the extremist group Islamic State (IS) in Syria.
The man, identified as Batar, was “involved in planning attacks on (…) detention centers and in the manufacture of improvised explosive devices,” the US Army Command for the Middle East (Centcom) said.
Since ISIL’s territorial defeat in Syria in 2019, hundreds of US troops deployed to the northeast of the country as part of the anti-jihadist coalition have continued to fight alongside the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces against suspected IS members.
No civilians or members of US troops were killed or injured during the operation, Centcom added.
The US military said on Friday it had killed a senior IS leader in Syria, adding that four soldiers were wounded in the operation that took place Thursday night.
In another operation with the Syrian Democratic Forces on February 10, weapons were seized and another IS officer was killed.
In 2022, two other leaders of the group were killed, one in February by US special forces in the northwest and another in October by former rebels from Deraa (south) province backed by the government system.
In October 2019, the United States announced the death of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during an operation in northwestern Syria.
Source: DN
