{"id":1267616,"date":"2022-02-03T09:07:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1267616"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:07:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:07:58","slug":"joe-biden-announces-death-of-islamic-state-leader-in-syria-military-strike-allegedly-killing-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-announces-death-of-islamic-state-leader-in-syria-military-strike-allegedly-killing-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Announces Death of Islamic State Leader in Syria Military Strike Allegedly Killing 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-announces-death-of-islamic-state-leader-in-syria-military-strike-allegedly-killing-13%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1267616&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden announced the death of Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi on Thursday after the military conducted a military strike against a target in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night at my direction, U.S. military forces in northwest Syria successfully undertook a counterterrorism operation to protect the American people and our Allies, and make the world a safer place,\u201d Biden said in a statement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The strike reportedly killed at least 13 people including six children and four women, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/02\/03\/pictures-pentagon-confirms-u-s-special-forces-airborne-raid-into-syria\/\">reported<\/a>. Biden said all American forces returned from the operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to the skill and bravery of our Armed Forces, we have taken off the battlefield Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi \u2014 the leader of ISIS,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in a statement the operation was a success.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19737690\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238152713-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19737690\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238152713-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A picture shows on February 3, 2022 the scene following an overnight raid by US special operations forces against suspected jihadists in Atme, in Syria\u2019s northwestern province of Idlib which left at least nine people dead, including three civilians. (MOHAMMED AL-RIFAI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cU.S. Special Operations forces under the control of U.S. Central Command conducted a counter-terrorism mission this evening in northwest Syria,\u201d he wrote in a statement. \u201cThe mission was successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Islamic State is only a <a href=\"https:\/\/newlinesmag.com\/reportage\/a-caliph-without-a-caliphate-the-biography-of-isiss-new-leader\">shell<\/a> of it\u2019s former prowess as the United States and it\u2019s allies led by President Donald Trump crushed the self-declared caliphate and killed leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way,\u201d Trump said after the successful operation to kill al-Baghdadi.<\/p>\n<p>ISIS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-50254785\">named<\/a> al-Qurashi as the successor of al-Baghdadi, although the terrorist group had lost nearly all of its territory held by the caliphate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden announced the death of Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi on Thursday after the military conducted a military strike against a target in Syria. \u201cLast night &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}