US kills leader linked to ISIS ambush
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Syria’s leader brokered a ceasefire with US-backed Kurdish forces after capturing most of Syria’s Kurdish-held north-east region in a rapid offensive. Videos showed Syrian soldiers riding in captured US Humvees on Sunday and toppling statues as they advanced across the Euphrates river,
The U.S. military carried out an additional round of what it called "large-scale strikes" against multiple ISIS targets in Syria.
They’re the first American airstrikes reported in Syria this year and the second wave of Operation Hawkeye Strike.
A U.S. military delegation arrived in a contested area of northern Syria on Friday following rising tensions between the Syrian government and a Kurdish-led force that controls much of the northeast.