Members of ISIL marching in Syria. (Photo: AP)
(VOVworld) - US Special Forces killed 32 Islamic State members, including 4 leaders, in a raid in Deir al-Zour province, eastern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Sunday.
Rami Abdel Rahman, SOHR director, said that the 4 senior IS leaders included IS oil chief Abu Sayyaf, the deputy IS defence minister, and an IS communications official.
According to Rahman, three of the four officials killed in the raid were from North Africa, but the IS communications official was Syrian.
On Saturday, the Pentagon confirmed that US Special Forces killed Abu Sayyaf and captured his wife in eastern Syria.