Breaking news: US President Biden announced that the current leader of the ISIS terrorist organization, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed by US Special Operations forces last night.
“WE HAVE REMOVED”
Biden said in a written statement, “Last night, at my instruction, US forces in northwest Syria carried out a successful counter-terrorism operation to protect the American people and our allies and make the world a safer place. Thanks to the skill and courage of our Armed Forces, ISIS ringleader Abu We eliminated Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi.” made his statement.
Biden later said, “After the US raid in Syria, Daesh no longer has a leader.” “The killing of the ISIS leader has ended the terrorist threat to the world.” used the phrases. “The ISIS leader blew himself up in a coward,” US President Biden said in a statement, while “the United States took every possible precaution to avoid civilian casualties.” said.
“HASHIMI EXPLOSED A BOMB TO KILL HIMSELF”
On the other hand, a senior official from the National Security Council, who did not want his name to be disclosed, told reporters that Hashemi detonated a bomb to kill himself and his family.
“At the beginning of the operation, the terrorist target detonated a bomb that killed himself and his family members, including women and children,” the official said in a statement. used the phrase.
WRAPPED MILITARY HELICOPTER VIEWED
Anadolu Agency (AA) teams viewed the wreckage of a military helicopter that the USA had to destroy due to technical malfunction in the operation carried out against the DEASH ringleader in Idlib.
After a US official told the American press that one of the helicopters participating in the operation landed and was destroyed due to technical problems, the AA team pursued the wreckage of the aircraft in question.
The AA team arrived and photographed the wreckage near the town of Cinderes in Afrin district, east of Idlib.
In the footage, it was seen that the helicopter was completely disintegrated and broken into small pieces, except for some parts.
ALLEGED SUICIDE BOMBERS
Some sources, who informed AA and were close to the scene at the time of the operation, said that a female suicide bomber opened fire on the helicopters of the US special forces, and that this person exploded after the fire, and that shortly after one of the damaged aircraft took action to return, they reached Cinderes. He claimed he had to land.
According to the Associated Press news agency, a US official, who did not want his name to be disclosed, noted that one of the helicopters participating in the operation landed on the ground due to technical problems and was destroyed.
13 PEOPLE, 6 OF them CHILDREN, DID
US soldiers carried out an operation after midnight with the support of an F-16 fighter jet and a helicopter in the province of Idlib in northwestern Syria.
Civil Defense teams working on the wreckage reported that 13 people, including 6 children and 4 women, died in the raid.
The local security elements who informed AA said that the US soldiers took one of the people in the house alive and took them with them during the operation.
The AA team had viewed the place where the raid took place after the incident.
In the footage, some of the walls and ceiling of the house collapsed with the bombs thrown during the raid, the kitchen part was burned, all the furniture was destroyed and traces of blood are seen on the floor.
In addition, the remains of the ammunition used by the American soldiers are also noticed in the images.