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Syrian authorities connected Thursday (December 25, 2025) said they killed a elder person successful the Islamic State radical successful coordination with the U.S.-led coalition, hours aft the apprehension adjacent Damascus of different leader.
Syrian information and quality forces, moving successful coordination with the planetary coalition, conducted what the interior ministry described arsenic a “precise information operation”.
“The cognition resulted successful neutralising the violent Mohammad Shahada, known arsenic ‘Abu Omar Shaddad’, who is considered 1 of the salient IS leaders successful Syria,” it added.
“This cognition comes arsenic confirmation of the effectiveness of associated coordination betwixt the nationalist information agencies and planetary partners.”
Hours earlier, authorities said they captured Taha al-Zoubi, besides known arsenic Abu Omar Tabiya, an IS person successful Damascus, on with respective of his men connected Wednesday.
A December 13 onslaught killed 2 U.S. soldiers and an American civilian. Washington blamed the onslaught connected a lone IS gunman successful Syria’s Palmyra.
In retaliation, U.S. forces conducted strikes targeting scores of IS targets successful Syria.
The strikes killed 5 members of the jihadist group, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
In November, during a sojourn by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa to Washington, Syria officially joined the US-led conjugation against IS.
Sharaa is an Islamist ruler and a erstwhile jihadist whose radical fought IS astatine the tallness of his country’s civilian war.
