US-led Global Coalition arrests ISIS leader in northern Syria
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The US-led Global Coalition arrested on Thursday at dawn an Islamic State Organization (ISIS) senior leader in northern Syria.
During a counterterrorism operation, the Global Coalition captured an ISIS leader “experienced bomb maker and operational facilitator who became one of the top leaders of Daesh’s Syrian branch,” the coalition said in an official statement.
“The mission was meticulously planned to minimize the risk of collateral damage or civilian harm,” the statement read.
It stressed that no human losses were reported among civilians or among Coalition forces.
In the statement the coalition confirmed its commitment to “continue to work with our partners, the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Iraqi Security Forces, including the Peshmerga, to hunt the remnants of Daesh wherever they hide to ensure Daesh’s enduring defeat.”
A spokesperson for a Turkish-backed Syrian opposition faction told Reuters on Thursday that the Global Coalition carried out a helicopter raid in the village of al-Humaira near the city of Jarablus in northern Syria which is under the control of the Turkish forces.
Turkish-held areas in north and northeast Syria are safe environment and essential hotbeds where ISIS prominent leaders hid and use for planning attacks against other areas.
“The presence of the ISIS members and members of other terrorist organizations in Turkish-controlled areas in northern Syria have transformed the areas to be central zones to plot to destabilize northeast Syria,” on Feb. 6, said Abdulkarim Omar, co-chair of the Department of Foreign Relations of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).
In a similar operation in Idlib, the coalition, the US President Joe Biden announced on Feb. 3 that the coalition with the SDF assistance conducted a military operation in northwest Syria that resulted in the killing of the ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.