Pentagon Spokesperson Briefs Reporters on US Raid in Syria That Resulted in Death of Daesh Leader

Name: Pentagon Spokesperson Briefs Reporters on US Raid in Syria That Resulted in Death of Daesh Leader
Uploaded: 2022-02-03T17:45+0000
Duration: 41 min 3 s
Description: Earlier, Kirby announced that US Special Operations forces had carried out a successful counterterrorism operation in Syria, which resulted in the killing of top Daesh* commander al-Qurashi.

17:45 GMT, 3 February 2022

Earlier, Kirby announced that US Special Operations forces had carried out a successful counterterrorism operation in Syria, which resulted in the killing of top Daesh* commander al-Qurashi.

Sputnik

Watch a live broadcast as Pentagon Spokesman John F Kirby is holding a briefing in Arlington on Thursday, 3 February.

The briefing is expected to focus on the US counterterrorism operation in Syria's Idlib province, which took place in the early hours of Thursday and resulted in the death of top Daesh* leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.

The 45-year-old terrorist was considered to be the second "caliph" of the Daesh terrorist organisation, after its first leader, al-Baghdadi, was killed also in a US raid in 2019.

*Daesh (IS/ISIS/ISIL) is a terrorist organisation banned in Russia and many other countries.

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