Overview

• Troops landed from helicopters in Atmeh near the Turkish border around 2 a.m., with drones providing cover.
• The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says an IS commander known as Abu Hafs al-Qurayshi, an Iraqi, was detained and another Iraqi was killed.
• Syrian state TV names the target as Iraqi Salah Noman, known as Ali, and reports he was killed as he tried to flee.
• Local Syrian security cordoned the area while U.S. forces conducted the raid, which was the second known operation in northern Syria since Assad’s ouster in December.
• Sources reported a French-speaking woman accompanying the target, and her status remains unknown.