Statement from Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State:
The military operation authorized by President Biden and carried out by U.S. forces last night in northwest Syria has resulted in the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of ISIS – a significant victory in the global fight to disrupt and dismantle ISIS.
This successful operation is a credit to our brave service members and national security professionals, who undertook this mission at President Biden’s direction after months of careful planning. Throughout that process, the United States took extraordinary care to protect innocent lives and prevent noncombatant casualties. ISIS, however, once again revealed its disregard for human life, including that of women and children, when al-Qurayshi choose to detonate a suicide bomb, killing his own family.
Al-Qurayshi, also known as Hajji Abdallah, took over ISIS in October 2019 after years of serving as a senior leader in the terrorist organization. He was known for his brutal enforcement of ISIS’s vicious ideology and was a driving force behind ISIS’s violent campaigns to subjugate communities and oppress perceived enemies, including the Yazidis, a religious minority in Iraq. He coordinated the group’s global terror operations during a period in which ISIS expanded its geographic presence and attacks in Africa.
This operation was part of a larger mission by the members of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS to deny ISIS’s territorial control in Iraq and Syria, counter ISIS’s messaging and financing, and stabilize areas that have been liberated from ISIS to prevent the group from resurging. Al-Qurayshi’s death strikes a significant blow against ISIS. Now the United States and our partners in the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS will continue the effort. Our goal is the enduring defeat of ISIS and that fight continues.
VOTES MATTER even the ILLEGAL ONES.
No, they caught all those MAGAs that tried to vote multiple times, and they got prosecuted.
Crickets … inflation, WAR, crime, gas prices.
Do you idiots realize RUSSIA is negotiating our trade deal with IRAN as RUSSIA is invading and killing in UKRAINE!!!
That’s ur PARTY …. ALL DEMOCRATS take note you are truly anti American. Enemies of my NATION and make me SICK !!!
NIT has to really scrub the bottom of the barrel to find something to regurgitate for Biden. NIT BIDEN CNN all LOSERS
Seems like we’re doing OK but thanks for playing along 😉
Pissacki said today that they would not put up with violent protests. I haven’t heard but have the truckers looted and burned, destroyed family businesses which caused millions of dollars in damages?
Karma at its best happening!!!! This is one of the others who constantly condemned Trump when all the time it was their own who are the bad guys just love when they prove who liars really are!!!!! When somebody with courage takes a stand we are going to have proof who all the cronies in office really are!!!! Day of reckoning!!! Maybe CNN is pronounced SIN.
Even Nixon and Obama were better presidents than Biden…Biden is by far the worst president of our country. His policies have created by far more divisions…financial hurt…and total destruction of our beautiful country…every day I watch the news and wonder how Biden is going to hurt me and my country today…I’m concerned that he might get us into war with Russia…how can he protect the border of Ukraine if he can’t protect the border of the USA?
I’m worried that three more years of this and our country will look like war torn Eastern Europe. Poverty and crime will be raging. Democrats are bound and determined to ruin this nation at any cost.
I’d call into question the sanity of anyone that voted for this clown Biden!
“No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is Actually doing
is worse than you imagine.”
I’ve witnessed Nixon, Carter, Clinton, Bush, Obama and now Biden. I didn’t like any of them, but this is the first time in my adult life that I actually DESPISE a president.
Didn’t you “witness” trump? Or didn’t you consider him a real President?
He blew himself and family up along with a few other people.
Because he was caught and had no way out.
jo = the pimple on Trunps azz strikes again !
Was tHAT THERE THAT CORN POP GUY ? do you really think they told himm about this?
Biden’s strike my ass. It was the military that did this. Biden was just in the way as usual.
But when trump did it, it was all him, right?
Typical Orange Kool Aid drinker.
A few weeks fromn now – “Oops. I guess it was an elementary school full of little kids that will never know how hairy pedoJoe’s legs are.”
Wonder where all the Biden haters are on this post.
Got one right go for more….
The “Biden haters” are everywhere. Look at the polls. WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER. Only people that like him are Americas enemies, because they know he is week and worthless. This is just an effort to change the subject from his failures. Wouldn’t surprise me if this was a made up lie by cnn and msdnc.