ISIS Leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi Killed in Counterterrorism Raid in Syria

This morning, President Biden announced that U.S. Special Forces killed  ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in a counter terrorism mission in northwest Syria last night. The raid was the biggest since the 2019 operation that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Sources reported multiple fatalities with at least 13 people killed in clashes that took place after the raid and included six children and four women. There were no U.S. casualties according to the Pentagon. Last night, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said that the mission was conducted by U.S. Central Command which controls military operations and activities in the Middle East. The Pentagon will conduct a more thorough after-action review of the raid but a senior administration official said “at the beginning of the operation, the terrorist target exploded a bomb that killed him and members of his own family, including women and children.”