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US commandos kill ISIS leader, successor of al Baghdadi, in Syria raid

By Mike Brest
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US commandos kill ISIS leader, successor of al Baghdadi, in Syria raid

The U.S. military killed the leader of ISIS in an early morning operation in northwest Syria early Thursday morning, President Joe Biden said.

Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurayshi, who took control of the terror group in October 2019 after Abu Bakr al Baghdadi killed himself as U.S. commandos closed in on him in the same region, was the target of the successful mission, the president said.

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