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US special forces carried out a “successful” counter-terrorism mission in northwest Syria, the Pentagon said in a statement Thursday.

It appeared to be the largest such raid in the country since the 2019 killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.

The defence department statement gave no indication of the target or any other information other than that there were no US casualties.

But a Syrian civil defence group said it had recovered 13 bodies, including six children and four women.

Syrian rebel sources told Reuters they believed the target was a leading Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist but could not be more specific - read the full story here:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/03/us-conducts-largest-raid-since-killing-al-baghdadi-leaving-13/

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