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.
Wednesday’s announcement that IS leader Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi was killed in October caught many by surprise, but sources tell VOA the US confirmed his death with DNA, other evidence shortly after it happened