U.S. forces in Syria killed a leader of Islamist terror group ISIS during an airstrike in Syria this week.
The Dec. 19 strikes targeted ISIS leader Abu Yusif and another operative in Syria’s Dayr az Zawr province, according to a statement by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees military operations in the region.
U.S. forces have been deployed to Syria since 2014 as part of an international mission to erode and destroy ISIS’s presence in the region and to prevent its spread throughout the Middle East.
CENTCOM commander Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla said that ISIS leadership was currently trying to take advantage of the political uncertainty in Syria following the overthrow of dictator Bashar al-Assad after more than a decade of civil war….