Daily Mail News UK
The United States has carried out an airstrike in Syria just hours after a top ISIS leader was shot dead by special forces in a midnight raid.
At 6.23pm local time, US forces conducted an airstrike in northern Syria, killing both Abu ‘Ala, one of the top five ISIS leaders and the deputy leader of ISIS in Syria, and Abu Mu’Ad al Qahtani, an ISIS official responsible for ‘prisoner affairs.’
The announcement came just hours after special forces succeeded in killing Rakkan Wahid al-Shammri, an ISIS official known to facilitate the smuggling of weapons and fighters to support ISIS operations.