Isis chief Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quarayshi died by blowing himself up with a bomb he had with him during the US operation in northern Syria.
American sources report this after Joe Biden claimed responsibility for the raid against some jihadist cells in the area: "The US army has eliminated the head of Isis from the battlefield, all American soldiers are safe and sound", said the US President.
The bomb that detonated the head of ISIS also killed his wife and his two children.
"We will pick you up from anywhere in the world, wherever you are hiding we will find you," Joe Biden said in the press statement on the Syria raid, adding that the ISIS chief blew himself up in a "desperate act of cowardice" .
Biden justified the anti-terrorism operation with the aim of "protecting the American people and our allies" and "making the world safer", as stated in a note from the White House also posted on Twitter. The president praised the "ability" and "courage" of the armed forces.
The US operation in northern Syria was the largest raid in the province since the Trump-era US attack in 2019 that led to the killing of then ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The blitz, led by special forces, lasted two hours and affected the village of Atmeh, near the border with Turkey, an area dotted with Syrian refugee camps.
The special forces, airborne with military helicopters and landed in the Atmeh area, engaged in a three-hour fire fight with local militiamen barricaded together with their families.
According to the National Observatory for Human Rights in Syria there are at least 13 victims, including six children and four women. The footage shows shreds of the bodies of a man and two children on the ground near a building that, according to local witnesses cited by the Observatory, was targeted by the US attack.
(Unioneonline / L)
