ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi has been killed in a US raid in Syria, President Joe Biden said.
Troops targeted a large house in Atmeh in the Idlib region where the ISIS leader was hiding. First responders at the scene reported that 13 people had been killed, including six children and four women, according to the Associated Press.
ISIS announced al-Qurashi, also known as Abdullah Qardash or Hajji Abdullah, was the leader of the organization after former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi also blew himself up in a similar raid in 2019. A special forces team was deployed at night. They surrounded the house and ordered women and children to evacuate via loudspeakers, before engaging opposition fighters in combat.
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