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ISIS Leader Al-Qurashi Killed In Raid By US Military

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ISIS leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been on Wednesday in a US counterterrorism raid in northwest Syria, US president Joe Biden said. In a statement on Thursday, Biden described the death of al-Qurashi as an "act of desperate cowardice." "Last night at my direction, U.S. military forces in northwest Syria successfully undertook a counterterrorism operation to protect the American people and our Allies, and make the world a safer place," the statement reads.


"Thanks to the skill and bravery of our Armed Forces, we have taken off the battlefield Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi — the leader of ISIS. All Americans have returned safely from the operation."


Biden further said, "As our troops approached to capture the terrorist, in a final act of desperate cowardice, with no regard to the lives of his own family or others in the building, he chose to blow himself up… rather than face justice for the crimes he has committed."


"The United States military forces successfully removed a major terrorist threat to the world, the global leader of ISIS," Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Biden added during a press conference on the overnight raid.


The counterterrorism operation is the biggest US raid in the country since 2019 operation that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.


Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said The Pentagon will conduct a more thorough after-action review of the raid. But one senior administration official said that "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."


"While we are still assessing the results of this operation, this appears to be the same cowardly terrorist tactic we saw in the 2019 operation that eliminated al-Baghdadi," the official said.

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