Examining CENTCOM’s mix of unilateral and partnered operations against senior ISIS officials in Syria provides useful insights into the group’s current capabilities and the focus of U.S. attention in the region.
Four U.S. troops were wounded and a senior Islamic State leader was killed during a Thursday night helicopter raid in northeastern Syria, the Pentagon said Friday, marking the American military's latest counterterrorism operation in the war-torn country.
A rare US raid in the afternoon of October 6 killed an ISIS member in Syria, a day after US Central Command sent forces via helicopter to raid a village near Qamishli. The target of the US helicopter raid was Rakkan Wahid al-Shammri, an ISIS official