A US airstrike launched on June 10 in northwest Syria killed a suspected ISIS official, according to a statement from US Central Command.
“On June 10, US Central Command (CENTCOM) Forces conducted a precision airstrike in Northwest Syria killing Rakhim Boev, a Syria-based ISIS
official,” CENTCOM wrote on X.
CENTCOM claimed Boev was involved in “planning external operations threatening US citizens, our partners, and civilians.”
The command didn’t share any more details about the strike and posted a photo of a damaged car that’s purported to be the aftermath of the attack. Based on the photo, the strike was likely launched with an AGM-114R9X Hellfire missile that used blades to kill a target rather than an explosive warhead.
The Trump administration has also been backing the Kurdish-led SDF in operations against ISIS. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the US backed a series of raids against ISIS on Thursday morning.
While launching operations against ISIS, the US has also embraced Syria’s new de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, who had ties to ISIS’s founder, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and himself founded Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate before rebranding the group and forming Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in 2017. HTS led the offensive that ousted former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
