U.S. Central Command conducted a helicopter raid in northeast Syria targeting a “senior ISIS” leader on Wednesday, it announced the next day.
The operation targeted Rakkan Wahid al Shammri, whom CENTCOM spokesman Col. Joe Buccino described as “an ISIS official known to facilitate the smuggling of weapons and fighters to support ISIS operations,” and it took place near the village of Qamishli.
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Al Shammri was killed in the operation, an associate of his was wounded, and two others were detained by U.S. forces.
Buccino previously confirmed the strike to the Washington Examiner but provided few details, saying more would be released in the coming hours.
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The operation was a helicopter-borne raid, according to Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, who had reported the raid, and he said the U.S. forces killed “a senior ISIS leader [and] captur[ed] several others alive.”
