American and Iraqi forces killed the head of the Islamic State group’s international operations in an early morning raid in Syria.

The Iraqi Counterterrorism Service announced that U.S. troops and its forces carried out a dawn raid inside Syria that resulted in the death of Omar Abdul Qader, ISIS’s head of operations and external security. The operation is the latest in the past three months to kill or capture top members of the terror group still active inside Syria.

Neither the U.S. nor Iraq offered details on the raid except that it was an “air raid.” It’s unclear if anyone else was killed during the operation. Qader, also known as Abdul Rahman Al-Halabi, was involved in the 2013 bombing of the Iranian embassy in Lebanon — which killed 23 people — and multiple terror plots in Europe a

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