u. s. president jo byne says the leader of this so called islamic state has died during a targeted rate by us forces in syria senior us officials say abo ibrahim and has she, me, al, could a, she blew himself up as the operation got underway in the north west of the country prison biden is expected to make a statement momentarily, and we will be carrying that life for you. here at dw news is a waiting for him to come out. in the meantime, i have my highly sick colleague william glucose here to talk more about these a braking developments. what will have you been able to learn about this? right? i mean, there's a lot, we don't know. of course, in situations like this highly covert, highly secretive operations that take place in the darkness of night, which is what happened in the overnight ours are hearing from both president biden . and us officials that the current leader of i asked ably remo his she, me, courage, karachi was killed in this raid. apparently he ended up killing himself. it wasn't the result of any american weaponry targeting him, although there was a, so we're hearing a

u . s. president jo byne says the leader of the so called islamic state has been killed during a targeted raid by us forces in syria senior us officials say abo abraham and has she, me a good a. she blew himself up for as the operation got under way in the north west of the country. a short while ago. you as president, if a statement as go to washington did of his army salad is standing by oliver. what more can you tell us about this raid? what was the biggest u. s. raid a carried out in syria since the killing of former ices leader. i will back her up . but guardian that was in 2019. we know that 13 people were killed according to the syrian observatory for human rights, but all us soldiers were able to get out safely according to the u. s. government. now, as a reminder of this comes after a major i s attack at cobbled airport. you remember those images of last august when the evacuation was underway in thousands of afghani citizens, men, women, children were trying to escape and isis carried out a suicide attack in those crowds of people killing. ironically, exactly the same number of