US forces kill ISIS ‘key financier’ in Syria raid
Forces under U.S. Central Command killed a suspected senior member of ISIS during an Aug. 19 raid in northern Syria.
Jeff Schogol
Aug 21, 2025 7:47 PM EDT
Syria
U.S. soldiers board a CH-47 Chinook helicopter in Syria on May 25, 2021. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images.
U.S. troops killed a suspected senior member of the Islamic State group, or ISIS, during an Aug. 19 raid in northern Syria, defense officials have announced.
U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, confirmed the operation on Thursday after media outlets reported about the raid earlier in the week.
CENTCOM did not name the suspected ISIS official, who was described as “key financier who planned attacks in Syria and Iraq.”
“He had relationships throughout the ISIS network in the region, posing a direct threat to U.S. and coalition forces and the new Syrian Government,” a CENTCOM news release says.
The first American ground troops deployed to Syria in 2015 as part of a coalition led by the U.S. military to defeat ISIS. Since then, the terrorist group has lost its last enclave in Syria, but U.S. troops and partner forces continue to battle ISIS.
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