Joe Biden says military has removed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi from the battlefield
- Islamic State leader killed family with bomb during Syria raid, US official claims – live
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of Islamic State and one of the world’s most wanted men, has been killed during an overnight raid by US special forces in north-west Syria.
The pre-dawn attack on a house in the village of Atme, just south of the Turkish border, led to up to 13 casualties, among them women and children. It also resulted in the destruction of a US Apache helicopter, which had been used to carry special forces troops from Erbil in Iraq.
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