Breaking: U.S. Special Forces kill senior ISIS leader during raid in Syria

Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Saturday that U.S. special operations forces conducted an operation in Syria that aimed to capture a senior leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

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The senior leader, Abu Sayyaf, was killed in the operation, Carter said in a statement issued Saturday morning.

No U.S. forces were killed or injured during the operation.

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