SULAIMANI (ESTA) — A Senior Islamic State (ISIS) leader was detained in Syria, said the U.S.-led coalition forces on Thursday.
The U.S.-led coalition said it had detained a senior Islamic State group leader in Syria during an early-morning operation on Thursday, according to Reuters.
“The detained individual was assessed to be an experienced bomb maker and facilitator who became one of the group’s top leaders in Syria,” it said, adding no civilians were harmed during the operation and no aircraft damaged.
The coalition conducts raids and strikes targeting members of the jihadist group, which has been waging insurgent attacks since its defeat on the battlefield three years ago.
However, it did not specify in what part of Syria Thursday’s raid took place.
United States Special Forces in February undertook a helicopter raid in Syria’s Idlib province controlled by jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) that led to the death of Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim Al-Hashemi Al-Quraishi, Reuter said.
Quraishi had led the group since the death of its founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was also killed when he detonated explosives during a U.S. raid in 2019.
