More on this story from yesterday:
[AlAhram] American forces on Sunday killed two Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
Death Eaters in eastern Syria in a helicopter raid, US Central Command said in a statement.
U.S. Central Command did not specify the location of the overnight operation and claimed there were no civilian casualties in its initial assessments of the operation.
The statement described one of the two targeted IS leaders, Anas, as an ``ISIS Syria Province official'' involved in plotting attacks in eastern Syria.
``ISIS continues to represent a threat to the security and stability of the region,'' CENTCOM front man Joe Buccino said in the statement. ``The death of these ISIS officials will disrupt the terrorist organization's ability to further the plot and carry out destabilizing attacks in the Middle East.''
Kurdish forces also took part in the raid in the village of al-Zer in eastern Deir el-Zour, said the U.K.-based war monitor group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Death Eaters refused to turn themselves in before U.S. helicopters fired at the house they were in, it added.
There are some 900 U.S. forces in Syria supporting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the fight against IS. They have frequently targeted IS Death Eaters mostly in parts of northeastern Syria under Kurdish control.
On Nov. 30, IS announced that leader Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed in battle. The U.S. said al-Qurayshi was killed in an operation conducted by rebel forces in the southern city of Daraa.
U.S. troops and Kurdish fighters resumed joint patrols in northeastern Syria after a temporary halt following a series of
...KABOOM!...
s against Kurdish-led forces.