The commander of Syria’s Kurdish forces says his group’s intelligence unit carried out a joint operation with US troops in northern Syria hours, after the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, targeting his right-hand man and IS spokesman.
People look at a destroyed houses near the village of Barisha, in Idlib province, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, after an operation by the US military which targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group. President Donald Trump says Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead after a US military operation in Syria targeted the Islamic State group leader. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed/MANILA BULLETIN)
US officials had no immediate comments.
Al-Muhajir’s death would be another blow to the extremists.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported al-Muhajir’s death, saying he was travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a sedan.
The report came hours after President Donald Trump announced al-Baghdadi was killed in a US special forces operation in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province.