An alleged ISIS member was killed by a drone attack in northern Syria on Monday, according to a war monitor and an AFP journalist.
The incident, which occurred days after US forces claimed they had hit ISIS officials in Syria in a series of operations, was not immediately known who was responsible.
Residents and an AFP journalist reported hearing two explosions close to the northern Syrian border town of Tal Abyad, which is held by Turkey.
An alleged member of the terrorist organisation was the target of a drone attack, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in Britain.
According to the monitor, which depends on a vast network of informants within Syria, the accused terrorist was slain while riding a motorcycle.
Ismail al-Barho, a local, told AFP, “I heard aeroplanes and then a first attack, followed by a second one less than a minute later.
He said that a civilian was also hurt and claimed, “I came to the scene of the hits and discovered a burnt body.”
Ammar al-Yehya Ibn Ali, a 35-year-old Syrian who was believed to have previously belonged to ISIS, was recognised as the deceased by another local.
In order to avoid retaliation, the resident spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) reported that it conducted a raid in northeast Syria on Thursday, targeting an ISIS official known to support the smuggling of weapons and fighters. This was followed by the attack on ISIS on Monday.
Later that day, it claimed to have carried out another airstrike that resulted in the deaths of two top ISIS militants in a statement.
As part of a coalition effort to defeat the ISIS organisation, Washington initially sent soldiers to northeast Syria in 2014.
The rest of ISIS’s grip over Syria was lost in March 2019 following a military assault supported by a US-led coalition, and the group largely withdrew into desert hideouts.
Since then, they have continued to carry out strikes in Iraq while also ambushing forces headed by the Kurds in Syria and Iraq.
The senior ISIS terrorist in Syria was reportedly killed in a drone attack in the north of the nation, according to the Pentagon, in July.
He was “one of the top five” ISIS leaders, according to CENTCOM.
The assault in July occurred five months after a US operation on the village of Atme that took place at night and resulted in the murder of ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi.
According to US sources, al-Qurashi set up a bomb to elude arrest, killing himself, his wife, and two children in the process.
