{"id":1851554,"date":"2023-02-17T15:34:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1851554"},"modified":"2023-02-17T15:36:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T20:36:49","slug":"four-u-s-soldiers-and-dog-wounded-in-raid-that-killed-senior-isis-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-u-s-soldiers-and-dog-wounded-in-raid-that-killed-senior-isis-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Four U.S. Soldiers And Dog Wounded In Raid That Killed Senior ISIS Leader"},"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\">26<\/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%2Ffour-u-s-soldiers-and-dog-wounded-in-raid-that-killed-senior-isis-leader%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=1851554&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-->\n<p>Four U.S. soldiers were injured in an operation in the Middle East this week that successfully killed the intended target of the mission \u2014 a senior ISIS leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night, during a partnered U.S. and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) helicopter raid in northeastern Syria, an explosion on target resulted in four U.S. servicemembers and one working dog wounded,\u201d U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), released a statement. \u201cThe targeted ISIS senior leader, Hamza al-Homsi, was killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CENTCOM stated that the servicemembers and a canine working companion were receiving medical treatment in an American medical facility in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ISIS Senior Leader Killed; Four U.S. Military Servicemembers Wound in Helicopter Attack in Northeastern Syria a href=&#8221;https:\/\/t.co\/j2a8IWsQw2&#8243;>pic.twitter.com\/j2a8IWsQw2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CENTCOM\/status\/1626618891404189696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Al-Homsi was reportedly overseeing ISIS\u2019s terrorist activity in eastern Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe injuries to the US troops and working dog result from Hamza al-Homsi triggering an explosion on the target near Deir ez-zor, Syria,\u201d said CENTCOM spokesman\u00a0Col. Joe Buccino.\u00a0\u201cNo other ISIS fighters were killed or captured on this target, however, a separate ISIS raid that same night resulted in the death of an ISIS assassination cell leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/4-us-service-members-wounded-helicopter-raid-killed\/story?id=97289403\">reported<\/a> The condition of three service members was stable, and the condition of the fourth seems to be minor.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the U.S. Military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-military-kills-top-isis-leader-along-with-nearly-a-dozen-isis-operatives-in-africa\">A high-ranking ISIS leader was killed<\/a> ISIS operatives were also present during the operation in Africa.\u00a0CNN was told by a senior official of the administration that the operation occurred in a \u201cmountainous cave complex in northern Somalia\u201d ISIS planned its expansion into Africa and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the remote location of the operation, the assessment is that no civilians were injured or killed,\u201d U.S. Africa Command issued a statement. \u201cProtecting civilians remains a vital part of the command\u2019s operations to promote greater security for all Africans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense, confirmed that U.S. forces had killed ISIS leader Bilal al-Sudani.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn January 25, on orders from the President, the U.S. military conducted an assault operation in northern Somalia that resulted in the death of a number of ISIS members, including Bilal-al-Sudani, an ISIS leader in Somalia and a key facilitator for ISIS\u2019s global network,\u201d Austin said. \u201cAl-Sudani was responsible for fostering the growing presence of ISIS in Africa and for funding the group\u2019s operations worldwide, including in Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN spoke with an official who said that U.S. forces had wanted to capture al Sudani alive. However, the terrorists made that impossible and al-Sudani along 10 other terrorists were killed.<\/p>\n<p>One serviceman was only injured by the American military dog that bit him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four U.S. soldiers were injured in an operation in the Middle East this week that successfully killed the intended target of the mission \u2014 a senior ISIS leader. \u201cLast night, during a partnered U.S. and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) helicopter raid in northeastern Syria, an explosion on target resulted in four U.S. servicemembers and one &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1851557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8739,3937,3940,3939,7952,7400,4187,7238,13770],"class_list":["post-1851554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-dog","tag-isis","tag-killed","tag-leader","tag-raid","tag-senior","tag-soldiers","tag-u-s","tag-wounded"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851554","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1851557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}