An Isis fighter in Raqqa, Syria. Photo: REUTERS
The leader of the ISIS jihadist group in Syria died on Tuesday after being killed hit by a missile launched from a drone of the US military, as confirmed by the Pentagon to the AFP agency.
Maher Al-Agal was killed while riding a motorcycle near Jindayris, Syria, and one of his best aides was seriously injuredThe spokesman for the central command of the Department of Defense, Lieutenant Colonel Dave Eastburn said so.
The Syrian civil protection force said one person was killed and another injured in an attack on a motorcycle outside the city of Aleppo, but did not identify the victims.
ISIS militants were constantly attacked by the US military. Photo: REUTERS
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a reference source in the region, confirmed that Agal died in a drone attack.
There was little information available on Agal, which the Observatory has defined as governor of the Islamic State for the Levant. They added that Al-Agal was a former senior ISIS commander in Raqqa and had since moved further north, to Afrin in 2020 under the Turkish-backed factions.
The decline of Isis in Iraq and Syria
The attack came five months after a US night raid on the city of Atme in northern Syria kill the general leader of ISISAbu Ibrahim al-Qurashi.
US officials later claimed that Qurashi died after detonating a bomb to prevent capture.
Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi, the Isis leader who died in February 2022 in Syria. Photo: AFP
The Islamic group ISIS has come to control more than 103,600 square kilometers extending from Syria to Iraq, ruling over 8 million people.
After the collapse of the group’s territorial dominance in 2019, his the leaders resorted to guerrilla tactics be able to “efficiently restructure organizationally,” according to the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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