Washington has in the last year stepped up raids and operations against suspected ISIS operatives in Syria.
The US Central Command said on Sunday, July 9, it conducted a drone strike on Friday, July 7, that killed an ISIS leader in Eastern Syria.
It used the same MQ-9 drones in the attack that had “earlier in the day been harassed by Russian aircraft in an encounter that had lasted almost two hours,” it said in a statement. “US Central Command conducted a strike in Syria that resulted in the death of Usamah al-Muhajir, an ISIS leader in eastern Syria,” it said without giving any more details on al-Muhajir.
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