ISIS commander killed in helicopter raid: SOHR

The SOHR report suggested the Iraqi ISIS commander showed resistance when Coalition Forces attempted to arrest him.

Wladimir van Wilgenburg 2024/01/08 16:48

US soldiers patrol an area on the outskirts of Rumaylan in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakeh province on December 11, 2023 (Photo: AFP/Delil Souleman)

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ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – An Iraqi ISIS commander was reportedly killed in a clash after forces belonging to the Global Coalition Against ISIS carried out an airdrop near his house in Deir ez-Zor, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Monday.

In a later statement, the SDF confirmed that on Sunday, Anti-terrorism Units (YAT) in cooperation with the US-led Coalition eliminated a senior ISIS leader, Muhammed Atiyah, aka Abu Mahmoud, who refused to surrender.

The airdrop took place in the town of Al-Jarthi in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.

The SOHR report suggested the Iraqi ISIS commander showed resistance when Coalition Forces attempted to arrest him. A firefight ensued, and the commander was killed.

The family of the ISIS commander was reportedly living in al-Hol camp, where on Dec. 28, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)-linked security forces killed senior ISIS official Abu Obeida al-Iraqi.

Although ISIS was territorially defeated in 2019, ISIS cells continue to pose a security threat and instability in both Iraq and Syria.

On Sunday, two members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) alliance were killed in an ISIS attack.

Last Thursday, two ISIS militants were killed after they attempted to attack the SDF near Syria’s al-Shaddadi.

Updated: 21:32 PM

Editing by Dastan Muwaffaq