US forces killed ISIS, Hurras al-Din commanders in Syria in two strikes
The previously undisclosed airstrikes in Syria killed 37 total fighters.
Nicholas Slayton
Posted on Sep 29, 2024 12:37 PM EDT
American forces killed more than three dozen members of terrorist groups in Syria in two airstrikes this past month. One took out the top military commander for Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-linked group active inside the country. The strikes, announced by U.S. Central Command early Sunday, Sept. 29, are the latest in a series of recent raids and airstrikes targeting high-level commanders of ISIS and other groups in Iraq and Syria the last two months.
On Tuesday, Sept. 24, an airstrike in northwest Syria killed Marwan Bassam ‘Abd-al-Ra’uf, identified by CENTCOM as the military commander for Hurras al-Din in Syria. Eight other members of the group were killed in the attack. CENTCOM did not share any additional details on what weapons or how many forces were involved in the targeted strike.
The group, a Salafist militant organization formed out of several different factions during the ongoing Syrian Civil War, has ties to al-Qaeda, but is not part of it. A month earlier in late August, American forces killed Abu-’Abd al-Rahman al-Makki, a member of the governing council for Hurras al-Din’s governing council, in a targeted strike inside Syria.
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