Shafaq News – Damascus
A Syrian military source said on Saturday that Abu Hamza al-Athari, identified as a senior ISIS operative responsible for the Palmyra attack, was killed in a joint intelligence-led operation involving Syrian and Iraqi forces under the direction of the Global Coalition in the Raqqa countryside.
The source, who preferred to stay anonymous, told Shafaq News that al-Athari was killed in an airstrike carried out by the Global Coalition aircraft on the town of Maadan, east of Raqqa, revealing that he was “the primary planner” behind the Palmyra attack and oversaw ISIS operations across Deir Ez-Zor countryside and Syria’s central desert region.
Earlier this month, two US soldiers and one US civilian were killed, and three other American service members were wounded, when an ISIS-affiliated individual within Syrian security forces ambushed a joint meeting between US forces and Syrian security personnel in Palmyra, central Syria.
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