Senior ISIS leader killed, four US service members wounded in Syrian raid, CENTCOM says
Mike Brest
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A U.S. military operation in northeast Syria on Thursday night resulted in the death of an ISIS operative who Central Command describes as a “senior leader,” while four U.S. service members were injured in an explosion.
The ISIS leader who died, Hamza al Homsi, was the target of the mission, which U.S. forces conducted alongside their Syrian Democratic Forces counterparts. The four wounded U.S. troops and a working dog are currently receiving treatment in Iraq.
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“Last night, during a partnered U.S. and Syrian Democratic Forces helicopter raid in northeastern Syria, an explosion on target resulted in four U.S. servicemembers and one working dog wounded,” a statement from CENTCOM reads. “The targeted ISIS senior leader, Hamza al-Homsi, was killed. The U.S. servicemembers and working dog are receiving treatment in a U.S. medical facility in Iraq.”
The condition of the wounded service members is unclear.
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“While our efforts have degraded ISIS, the group’s vile ideology remains uncontained and unconstrained,” Gen. Michael Kurilla, commander of CENTCOM, said earlier this month. “ISIS continues to represent a threat to not only Iraq and Syria, but to the stability and security of the region. Therefore, we must continue the fight against ISIS alongside our partners.”
U.S. forces, along with the SDF, continue to fight against the remaining remnants of ISIS. The partnered forces conducted hundreds of similar missions. They conducted 43 operations in January that resulted in the deaths of 11 ISIS operatives and the detention of 227 others, and conducted a total of 313 operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in the 2022 calendar year that resulted in the death or detention of more than a thousand ISIS operatives.