AIR FORCE HELICOPTER CREW RESCUES FEMALE HIKER – The 943rd Rescue Group had to use night vision goggles to rescue a severely injured hiker. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald/Released)
On September 25, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that it had captured an official of ISIS during a helicopter raid in northern Syria.
In a press release, the command said that the raid took place on September 23, identifying the captured ISIS Syria operational and facilitation official, Abu Halil al-Fadani. He was assessed to have ties throughout the ISIS network in the region.
No civilians were killed or wounded during the helicopter raid, according to CENTCOM, who didn’t provide any further details.
“The capture of ISIS officials like al-Fadani increases our ability to locate, target, and remove terrorists from the battlefield,” CENTCOM spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Troy Garlock said in the release. “USCENTCOM remains committed to the enduring defeat of ISIS.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition monitoring group based in London, said that the raid took place near the Turkish-occupied town of Umm Julud in the northern countryside of al-Hasakah. According to the monitoring group, the ISIS official captured by U.S. forces is an Iraqi national. It added that a lower rank Syrian member of the terrorist group was also apprehended during the raid.
The U.S. maintains some 900 troops in Syria under the pretext of fighting ISIS. The troops are deployed between a garrison on a strategic international highway that passes through al-Tanf area in the southeastern region and a network of bases at key oil and gas fields in the governorates of al-Haskah and Deir Ezzor in the northern and eastern regions.
In August, CENTCOM forces and its local proxy in Syria, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, conducted eight partner operations in the country, in which seven ISIS operatives were detained and an eighth was killed.
The Syrian government does not approve of U.S. military presence in the country and considers it to be an occupation. CENTCOM attempts to expand its operations there led to much tensions with the Syrian military and Russian forces in recent months.
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more likely they rescued him!
which official, the one they installed earlier this month?
the wanks have been using their ‘cia uber for terrorists’ for a few decades now.