{"id":974817,"date":"2022-02-03T13:52:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T13:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/president-joe-biden-says-u-s-raid-in-syria-killed-top-isis-leader-will-address-nation\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T13:52:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T13:52:51","slug":"president-joe-biden-says-u-s-raid-in-syria-killed-top-isis-leader-will-address-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/president-joe-biden-says-u-s-raid-in-syria-killed-top-isis-leader-will-address-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"President Joe Biden says U.S. raid in Syria killed top ISIS leader, will address nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"slide-image-container\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"975\" height=\"649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Biden-says-US-raid-in-Syria-killed-top-ISIS-leader-will-address-nation.jpg\" title=\"Biden says U.S. raid in Syria killed top ISIS leader, will address nation\" alt=\"Biden says U.S. raid in Syria killed top ISIS leader, will address nation\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>A damaged structure is seen in Atmeh village in Idlib province in northwestern Syria on Thursday after a U.S. military operation carried out a raid, killing ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, U.S. President Joe Biden said.\u00a0Photo by Yahya Nemah\/EPA-EFE<\/p>\n<article itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 3 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> U.S. forces conducted a counter-terrorism mission in northwest Syria late Wednesday that killed several people, including civilian children, and the leader of the Islamic State terrorist group, U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Special forces units were involved in the raid in the village of Atmeh near Syria&#8217;s border with Turkey. A U.S. military helicopter was also destroyed on the ground during the raid, officials said.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>&#8220;Last night at my direction, U.S. military forces in northwest Syria successfully undertook a counter-terrorism operation to protect the American people and our allies, and make the world a safer place,&#8221; Biden said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to the skill and bravery of our Armed Forces, we have taken off the battlefield Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi &#8212; the leader of ISIS. All Americans have returned safely from the operation.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Biden is scheduled to speak publicly about the operation and give more details in an address at 9:30 a.m. EST.\n<\/p>\n<p><emb><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"eOGHBGJrZQ4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Biden Delivers Remarks on a Successful Counterterrorism Operation\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eOGHBGJrZQ4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/emb>\n<\/p>\n<p>Al-Qurayshi became the second ISIS leader in October 2019. He ascended to the top spot after the first leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, detonated a suicide vest during a different U.S. raid in Syria.\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Thursday, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the mission had been conducted Wednesday night.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mission was successful,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There were no U.S. casualties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter raid was similar to the one in 2019 that killed al-Baghdadi. U.S. forces used loudspeakers ordering everyone inside a target home to surrender and leave. When no one did, the assault on the home began.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SyriaCivilDef\/status\/1489154458881773573\">said at least<\/a> 13 people, including six children and four women, died during the raid which followed an airborne operation by U.S. forces early Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<p>The White Helmets said the operations focused on the Atmeh house and that it transported some of the wounded and retrieved the bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military has used drones in the past to target al-Qaida leaders in Idlib, which had been the militant group&#8217;s Syria base at one time. The Pentagon said the terrorists were using Syria to launch attacks into Iraq and other locations.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A damaged structure is seen in Atmeh village in Idlib province in northwestern Syria on Thursday after a U.S. military operation carried out a raid, killing ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, U.S. President Joe Biden said.\u00a0Photo by Yahya Nemah\/EPA-EFE Feb. 3 (UPI) &#8212; U.S. forces conducted a counter-terrorism mission in northwest Syria late Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":974818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}