died during a target at raid by us forces in syria. senior us officials say arbor ibrahim and ashley alquon, he blew himself up, as the operation got under way in the north west of the country. president vine is expected to make a statement within the next hour. and we will be carrying that live out for you as soon as it gets underway. in the meantime, here with me is my colleague, william blue cross who has been following a development that way. what more if you liked? well, i think 1st of all, you know, the, as they say, truth is always the 1st casualty of war and we should be careful what we're hearing when it comes. these highly secretive, highly cove. it up covert operations. but we are hearing from president biden and from other us officials is that the current leader of i asked was killed in this rate in the early overnight hours, syria time, local time. the rate took about 3 hours about 2 dozen special forces troops are on the ground, backed up by helicopters, and jets and drone. so by special forces operation standards of fairly extensive operation. and the fact that they're puttin