The International Coalition arrests one of the leaders of the Islamic State in Syria

French soldiers open fire during an International Coalition mission on the Euphrates River against pockets of the Islamic State Photo: US Army / Gyasi Thomasson «Coalition forces carried out a counterterrorism operation to capture a senior leader of IS (…) The captured individual is an experienced bomb maker and operational facilitator who became one of the top leaders of the Syrian branch of IS,” the alliance announced in a statement.The international mission, established in 2014 to fight against jihadist formation in Iraq and Syria, limited itself to ensuring that no civilians or members of its ranks were injured during the action, without offering logistical details or specifying their geographical location.However, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported in the early hours of the morning that about a dozen international troop helicopters flew at low altitude over the rural areas of the northwestern province of Aleppo and, later, a raid was recorded in the village of Humaira. .In this area, also in Aleppo, alliance troops descended from their aircraft and engaged in a shootout with unidentified occupants of local homes, according to the note from the NGO, based in the United Kingdom and a wide network of collaborators on the land.These types of night raids are not common in Syria and are usually directed against important figures, such as the US operations that ended the lives of former IS leaders Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurashi, last February, and Abu Bakr al Bagdadi, in October 2019, in Idlib province, adjacent to Aleppo.At the beginning of the year, the Islamic State carried out its largest action in Syria since it was territorially defeated there in March 2019, with a riot in a prison with thousands of prisoners from the group that left nearly half a thousand dead in the northeast of the country. EFEPost navigation