Since the American military largely departed from Syria, in 2019, ISIS has had ample space to regroup and recruit. “Slowly but surely, ISIS is recovering,” one expert said.
On Thursday morning, President Joe Biden made a celebratory announcement:, had died in a raid by American special-operations troops in northwestern Syria. The raid, Biden said, was a “testament to America’s reach and capability to take out terrorist threats no matter where they try to hide.” But it’s not clear that killing an insurgent leader disables his group. The previous leader of, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, was killed two years ago, in another American raid.
In the city of Hasakah, in northeastern Syria, two suicide car bombers struck near the al-Sinaa prison, opening the way for a force offighters that appears to have numbered in the hundreds. The insurgents stormed the prison, in an attempt to free some three thousandprisoners, who were under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish militia backed by the United States. The prison is situated in an urban area, and yet theforce managed to slip past S.D.F.
The siege, divided between periods of combat and negotiation, lasted seven days and displaced tens of thousands of civilians.seemed to have a goal beyond freeing its imprisoned fighters. Al-Sinaa held some seven hundred boys—most of them between the ages of ten and seventeen—who were raised interritory, and are sometimes referred to in jihadi literature as “the Cubs of the Caliphate.
Especially in such an unsettled region, any attack on an insurgent leader risks inspiring others to take up his cause. On Thursday, two seniorofficials told reporters that the strike on Abdullah had required months of painstaking planning, in part to avoid killing citizens. Abdullah had installed himself on the top two floors of an apartment building, from which he never ventured out, communicating by couriers. An ordinary Syrian family occupied the ground floor.
The effort to avoid excess casualties appears to have been only partly successful. When the Americans surrounded the apartment, the family on the ground floor ran to safety, moments before Abdullah detonated a bomb—possibly on his person and possibly inside the apartment. The explosion destroyed the entire third floor, killing Abdullah and others, including his wife and several children.
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