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Assault on Islamic State Leadership Not Over

Carla Babb

   Senior Islamic State leaders in Syria are coming under fire, part of
   what appears to be an urgent campaign to gut the terror group's brain
   trust.

   The U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces -- credited with playing a key
   role in taking out IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and IS spokesman Abu
   Hassan al-Muhajir -- said Wednesday it had carried out a series of
   raids aimed at getting the terror group's key players dead or alive.

   "Another successful raid targeting & arresting senior ISIS members,"
   SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali tweeted late Monday, using an acronym for
   the terror group which is also known as IS or by its Arabic acronym,
   Daesh.

     Another successful raid targeting&arresting senior ISIS members.
     -- Mustafa Bali (@mustefabali) [1]October 28, 2019

   Word of ongoing operations against the terror group came shortly after
   a senior State Department official credited the SDF with playing a "key
   role" in enabling the U.S. raid on Baghdadi's compound in Bashira,
   Syria, which led to the IS leader's death.

   The official also confirmed SDF claims that its forces had killed the
   IS spokesman in a separate operation Sunday in the town of Jarablus,
   near the Syrian border with Turkey.

   Pentagon officials denied any involvement in the strike, in which a
   second IS fighter was killed and a third was captured, though the State
   Department said U.S. assets were involved.
   

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