<p>ATMEH, Syria (Reuters) -A pre-dawn U.S. military raid in northwestern Syria early on Wednesday targeted and killed a senior member of the Islamic State group, a U.S. official told Reuters.</p>
<p>It was the second known raid in northern Syria by U.S. troops since former President Bashar al-Assad was ousted in December. The Islamist-led government that replaced him has pledged to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State and is part of an anti-ISIS alliance that includes the U.S.-led coalition fighting the group.</p>
<p>The U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the raid killed a senior ISIS member who was seen as a candidate to be the leader of ISIS in Syria.</p>
<p>No U.S. troops were killed or injured in the raid, the official added.</p>
<p>A Syrian security source and Syria&#8217;s state-owned Al-Ikhbariya said the target was killed as he tried to escape.</p>
<p>Another Syrian source said the target was an Iraqi national and was married to a French national. It was not immediately clear what happened to his wife.</p>
<p>The Pentagon did not immediately have any public comment on the reports.</p>
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<p>The operation began at around 2 a.m. (1100 GMT), according to the Syrian security sources and neighbours in the town of Atmeh, in Idlib province.</p>
<p>Helicopters and drones provided air cover, one Syrian security source and residents said. Local Syrian forces set up a cordon around the neighbourhood, but U.S. forces conducted the actual raid, the second security source said.</p>
<p>Abdelqader al-Sheikh, a neighbour, said he was up late with his son and heard a noise in the yard next door.</p>
<p>&#8220;I called out, &#8216;Who are you?&#8217; and they started speaking to me in English, telling me to put my hands up,&#8221; Sheikh told Reuters.</p>
<p>He said the armed forces stayed on the roofs of surrounding houses for the next two hours and that he could hear someone nearby speaking Arabic in an Iraqi accent.</p>
<p>In July, the Pentagon said its forces had conducted a raid in Aleppo province resulting in the death of a senior Islamic State leader and his two adult Islamic State-affiliated sons.</p>
<p>Idlib has been a hiding spot for senior Islamic State figures for years. U.S. forces killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the village of Barisha in Idlib province in 2019 and his successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, in Atmeh in 2022.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Karam al-Masri in Atmeh, Suleiman al-Khalidi in Amman and Idrees AliWriting by Maya GebeilyEditing by Frances Kerry, Rod Nickel)</p>

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