Renewed anti-terrorist operation in Syria.
The United States killed ISIS leader of Syria Maher al-Agal in a drone strike Tuesday morning, according to the Pentagon.
► According to US government figures, al-Agal was one of the top four ISIS leaders overall.
His second-in-command was also attacked, but it’s not clear if he was killed or injured, United States Central Command spokesman Colonel Joe Buccino told Centcom. NBC“.
Syria’s ISIS leader was on a motorbike
“The elimination of these ISIS leaders will impair the terrorist organization’s ability to plan and execute further attacks,” Buccino said.
Maher al-Agal was on a motorcycle near Jindires at the time of the attack, Centcom’s Dave Eastburn told AFP on Tuesday. One of al-Agal’s closest associates was seriously injured.
► Al-Agal was responsible, among other things, for setting up IS networks outside of Iraq and Syria, according to Centcom. According to information from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, one of his main tasks also included bringing money into Syria from abroad.
It is the latest in a series of operations against the terrorist group in Syria. According to the US military, an unnamed senior leader of the Islamic State militant bomb-making group was captured in a raid last month.
A night raid by US special forces in north-west Syria in February killed the supreme leader of the terrorist group Islamic State, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashmi al-Kuraschi.
The news of the anti-ISIS operation comes ahead of US President Joe Biden’s (79) trip to the Middle East. He will land in Israel on Wednesday and hold a series of talks there and in the West Bank before traveling to Saudi Arabia.