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ALERT ⚠️ US SOFs KILL ISIS LEADER

The raid, which was likely spearheaded by the Army's Combat Applications Group (CAG, or "Delta Force"), included seven or eight attack and transport helicopters assaulting a compound southwest of #Barisha. The target area is located 5 km from the Turkish border and is controlled by Hurras al-Din, a group of Al-Qa'ida hardeliners that splintered from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

🛰Satellite imagery shows that the compound was built in 2018. ABB likely fled the Mid-Euphrates River Valley and reached Idlib through smuggling routes via regime and opposition-held territories. In #Idlib, he found shelter among the many ISIS cells embedded with the salafist militias in the area.

💥A brief firefight broke out when the the SOFs entered the house of the high-value target. ABB and two of his wives detonated their sucide vests to avoid capture, sources claim.

🛩After the #Delta units exfiltrated with ABB's body, an F-15E Strike Eagle airborne from Jordan leveled the compound. Unmanned aerial vehicles continued to loiter the area for battle damage assessment and after action ISR. The SOFs likely exfiled to either Incirlik air base (#Turkey), Septe airfield (Syria) or to Erbil air base (Iraq).

Coordinates: 36°09'57.4"N 36°37'39.0"E

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