WASHINGTON: The US military has captured six Islamic State operatives over the course of three helicopter raids in Syria this week, US Central Command announced, according to a report in The Hill, a Washington, DC-based publication.
The same report states that, "The raids, which took place over the past 48 hours in eastern Syria, included the capture of "al-Zubaydi", a senior ISIS official who US officials claim was involved in planning and enabling terrorist attacks in Syria." The recent raid was the second such operation in over a week. A helicopter raid by the US military in eastern Syria on December 11 killed a lead ISIS province official and his associate.
The raids included US Special Operations forces and personnel from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). (IANS)
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