He blew himself up and killed his family members, including women and children..Details of the killing of ISIS leader al-Qurashi (video)

A senior White House official revealed Thursday that the leader of the "ISIS" organization, "Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurashi", was killed after he blew himself up during an operation carried out by US special forces in Syria, from Wednesday to Thursday.

"At the beginning of the operation, the terrorist target detonated a bomb that killed him and his family members, including women and children," the source said.

And earlier on Thursday, US President Joe Biden said that the so-called "Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurashi" was killed in the wake of a US operation in northwest Syria.

"Thanks to the skill and courage of our armed forces, we have uprooted Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, the leader of ISIS, from the battlefield," Biden said in a statement released by the White House. "All Americans have returned safely from the operation," Biden said in a statement released by the White House.

The American attack, which killed the terrorist leader, was carried out by helicopter gunships, armed Reaper drones, and attack aircraft, according to the New York Times.

The newspaper said that the attack, which began on Wednesday night, is similar to the raid carried out by US forces in October 2019 in which Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the former leader of ISIS, was killed.

The attack was carried out by about twenty American commandos, according to the same source.

The raid targeted a three-storey stone building surrounded by olive trees.

Footage shows the location of the air landing operation of the American forces after midnight in #Atma town, north of rural #Idlib.

Our team continues the search operations and secures the area to protect the civilians.#WhiteHelmets pic.twitter.com/kbYvGlewib

— The White Helmets (@SyriaCivilDef) February 3, 2022

Pictures posted by activists on social media showed simple rooms with mats on the floor, a diesel heater, and scattered clothes and blankets, some of them bloodied.

A video clip, posted on social media, showed people removing the bodies of at least nine men, women and children from the rubble of the badly damaged house.

Witnesses said that the American strikes on the house caused damage, but a senior American military official said that the explosion occurred inside the house and was not caused by American firepower.

The Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, retrieved bodies and survivors from under the rubble after the airstrikes and wrote on Twitter that at least 13 people were killed during the operation, including four women and six children.

The group did not provide further details about the identities of the dead. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported 13 deaths, including three women, four children and others who have not yet been identified.

This operation came days after the end of the largest American combat participation against ISIS since the end of the so-called “caliphate” three years ago.

During their participation in repelling ISIS attacks, the US forces supported a Kurdish-led militia in northeastern Syria, which has been fighting for more than a week to expel ISIS fighters from the prison they occupied in the city of Hasaka.

Little is known about al-Quraishi, who succeeded al-Baghdadi, or the supreme command structure of ISIS.

But analysts said that the killing of the leader of the "ISIS" organization represents a major blow to the terrorist organization, according to what was reported by the New York Times.

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