FOG BLOG U.S. NEWS LOG: ISIS LEADER KILLED IN RAID , LEAVES ISIS CRIPPLED!

ISIS leader killed in US-led Syria raid, Biden says...ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed Wednesday during a US counterterrorism raid in northwest Syria, President Joe Biden announced Thursday morning.

It was the biggest US raid in the country since the 2019 operation that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Qurayshi blew himself up as US forces approached his compound, Biden administration officials said, and the explosion resulted in multiple civilian casualties, though there was a discrepancy between the Biden administration and a Syrian civil defense group over how many. There were no US casualties, according to the Pentagon. Biden spoke from the White House Thursday morning to announce that the operation had taken "a major terrorist leader off the battlefield," saying the US had chosen to use special forces the operation in order to try to minimize civilian casualties......."Thanks to the bravery of our troops, this horrible terrorist leader is no more," Biden said from the Roosevelt Room. "Knowing that terrorist had chosen to surround himself with families, including children, we made a choice to pursue a Special Forces raid at a much a greater risk to our own people rather than targeting him with an airstrike."

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said in a statement late Wednesday night that the mission was conducted by US Central Command, which controls military operations and activities in the Middle East.