The U.S. army stated within the brief assertion that its operation was performed Thursday night time in partnership with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces which is allied with the U.S.

It added that “an explosion on track resulted in 4 U.S. service members and one working canine wounded.” It didn’t say by which a part of northeast Syria the raid was performed.

It recognized the killed IS commander as Hamza al-Homsi.

Regardless of their defeat in Syria in March 2019, IS sleeper cells nonetheless conduct assaults round Syria and Iraq the place they as soon as declared a “caliphate.”

On Friday, IS gunmen in central Syria shot lifeless at the very least 36 folks south of the city of Sukhna, based on the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition conflict monitor.

Professional-government radio station Sham FM reported the militants ambushed individuals who had been foraging for wild truffles within the desert. State tv put the loss of life toll at 53.

Joint operations between the U.S. army and SDF fighters are frequent in northeast and jap Syria alongside the border with Iraq.

The assertion stated the service members and dealing canine are receiving remedy in a U.S. medical facility in neighboring Iraq.

The U.S. army killed two IS leaders in Syria over the previous few years.

In February 2021, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in a U.S. raid in northwest Syria. IS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hunted down by the Individuals in a raid in October 2019.

In October, the chief of IS, A bu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in battle with Syrian rebels in southern Syria.