(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) U.S. special forces killed a senior Daesh commander during a raid aimed to capture him in Syria, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Saturday. "Last night, at the direction of the Commander in Chief, I ordered U.S. special operations forces to conduct an operation in al-Amr in eastern Syria to capture an ISIL (Daesh) senior leader known as Abu Sayyaf and his wife Umm Sayyaf," Carter said in a statement.
According to the statement, Sayyaf was killed "during the course of the operation when he engaged U.S. forces."
Carter also pointed that, during the operation, no U.S. forces were killed or injured.
The operation was authorized by President Barack Obama late Friday night upon the unanimous recommendation of his national security team.
The woman known as Umm Sayyaf was captured and is currently in military detention in Iraq, National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said in a statement.
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