Jakarta –
An explosion injured four military personnel United States of America during an attack that killed a senior leader of the group ISIS in Syria.
This was conveyed by the US military Central Command or Central Command (CENTCOM) on Friday (17/2) local time.
“Last night, during a joint US and Syrian Democratic Forces helicopter strike in the northeast Syriaan on-target explosion resulted in four US troops and one working dog being injured,” CENTCOM said in a statement as reported by the news agency AFPSaturday (18/2/2023).
CENTCOM stated that the ISIS leader, identified as Hamza al-Homsi, was killed in the helicopter attack. Meanwhile US troops and their dogs are being treated at an American medical facility in Iraq.
CENTCOM spokesman Colonel Joe Buccino later said the explosion was instigated by Homsi, who “monitored the group’s deadly terrorist network in eastern Syria before he was killed in the attack.”
Buccino added that US soldiers who was injured and his dog are in a stable condition at this time.
It is known that Washington leads the international coalition fighting ISIS and carries out periodic raids and attacks targeting the group.
After the ISIS group lost its last remnants of territory to local Kurdish-led forces backed by the US coalition in 2019, the remnants of ISIS in Syria most retreated to desert hideouts in the country’s east.
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