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U.S. Kills ISIS Leader Abu Yusif In Syria

The U.S. and Israel have sought to eliminate ISIS fighters and weapons in Syria following the downfall of dictator Bashar al-Assad.

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Smoke and fire billow after shelling on the Islamic State group's last holdout of Baghouz, in the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor province on March 3, 2019. Kurdish-led forces backed by US warplanes rained artillery fire and air strikes on besieged and outgunned jihadists making a desperate last stand in a Syrian village.
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The U.S. military announced on Friday that it killed the leader of ISIS in an airstrike this week in Syria.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said that U.S. forces carried out a precision airstrike on Thursday targeting ISIS leader Abu Yusif in the Dayr az Zawr Province.

The strike killed Yusif and another ISIS terrorist, CENTCOM said in a statement.

Yusif was located in an area that had been controlled by the Syrian and Russian government just a few of weeks ago.

“As stated before, the United States — working with allies and partners in the region — will not allow ISIS to take advantage of the current situation in Syria and reconstitute. ISIS has the intent to break out of detention the over 8,000 ISIS operatives currently being held in facilities in Syria,” said Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, CENTCOM commander. “We will aggressively target these leaders and operatives, including those trying to conduct operations external to Syria.”

The strike comes as the U.S. and Israel have launched airstrikes in recent weeks to prevent terrorists from seizing on the moment and recapturing large swaths of land that they have been driven out of.

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Last week, the U.S. launched airstrikes against “known ISIS camps” in Syria that killed at least a dozen ISIS terrorists.

Israel has targeted weapon depots and caches of chemical weapons seeking to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Islamic terrorists who overran the country.

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