U.S. forces in the cover of darkness took out the leader of the ISIS terrorist group in Syria on Feb. 2, U.S. President Joe Biden announced Thursday. The operation in northwest Syria killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of ISIS. U.S. Department of Defense press secretary John Kirby said that the mission was carried out by U.S. Special Operations forces under the control of U.S. Central Command. “The mission was successful. There were no U.S. casualties,” he said in a statement that did not mention who was killed. Biden said he and other U.S. officials chose a raid over an airstrike in an attempt to minimize civilian casualties, describing al-Qurayshi as surrounding himself with families, including children. “Our team is still compiling the report but we do know that as our troops approached to capture the terrorist, in a final act of desperate cowardness, he, with no regard to the lives …
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