“US Central Command launched an attack in Syria that killed Osama al-Muhajir, the leader of ISIS in eastern Syria,” the report said, without specifying details of the operation to kill the group’s leader.
Last year, Washington stepped up raids and operations against ISIS fighters in Syria, killing and arresting several leaders. They have mostly taken refuge in areas controlled by Turkish-backed rebels after the group lost its last territory in Syria in 2019, Reuters reported.
The US-led campaign that killed former ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed “caliph of all Muslims”, has since focused on surviving leaders, many of whom are believed to have masterminded attacks. abroad. At its height in 2014, ISIS controlled a third of Iraq and Syria. Although the group was expelled from most of the occupied territories, its militants continue to carry out attacks.
