- American forces targeted a “senior” member of the jihadist Islamic State group Thursday in a pre-dawn raid on northeastern Syria.
- Thursday’s raid is the first such airborne operation in government-held territory since the start of Syria’s war in 2011, added the Britain-based war monitor.
- The person killed in the operation “had been a resident of the area for years”.
<span>US targets ‘senior’ IS jihadist in Syria’s northeast: Centcom</span>
