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- US forces conduct raid in northern Syria against IS target, sources say</p>
<p>August 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM</p>
<p>ATMEH, Syria (Reuters) -U.S. forces took part in a pre-dawn raid in northwestern Syria early on Wednesday that targeted a member of the Islamic State group, a U.S. official and a Syrian security source said.</p>
<p>A second Syrian security source and Syria's state-owned Al-Ikhbariya said the target was killed as he tried to escape.</p>
<p>It was the second known raid in northern Syria by U.S. troops since former President Bashar al-Assad was ousted in December. The Islamist-led government that replaced him has pledged to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State and is part of an anti-IS alliance that includes the U.S.-led coalition fighting the group.</p>
<p>It was not immediately clear who the Islamic State member targeted on Wednesday was. The U.S. official said he was a suspected high-value target. The first Syrian source said he was an Iraqi national and was married to a French national. It was not immediately clear what happened to his wife.</p>
<p>The Pentagon did not immediately have any public comment on the reports.</p>
<p>The operation began at around 2 a.m. (1100 GMT), according to the Syrian security sources and neighbours in the town of Atmeh, in Idlib province.</p>
<p>Helicopters and drones provided air cover, one Syrian security source and residents said. Local Syrian forces set up a cordon around the neighbourhood but U.S. forces conducted the actual raid, the second security source said.</p>
<p>Abdelqader al-Sheikh, a neighbour, said he was up late with his son and heard a noise in the yard next door.</p>
<p>"I called out, 'who are you?' and they started speaking to me in English, telling me to put my hands up," Sheikh told Reuters.</p>
<p>He said the armed forces stayed on the roofs of surrounding houses for the next two hours and that he could hear someone nearby speaking Arabic in an Iraqi accent.</p>
<p>In July, the Pentagon said its forces had conducted a raid in Aleppo province resulting in the death of a senior Islamic State leader and his two adult Islamic State-affiliated sons.</p>
<p>Idlib has been a hiding spot for senior Islamic State figures for years. U.S. forces killed IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the village of Barisha in Idlib province in 2019 and his successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, in Atmeh in 2022.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Karam al-Masri in Atmeh, Suleiman al-Khalidi in Amman and Idrees Ali in WashingtonWriting by Maya GebeilyEditing by Frances Kerry)</p>
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