{"id":413889,"date":"2026-01-17T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413889\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:57:10","slug":"us-says-it-killed-al-qaeda-affiliated-leader-tied-to-deadly-syria-ambush-al-qaeda-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413889\/","title":{"rendered":"US says it killed al-Qaeda-affiliated leader tied to deadly Syria ambush | Al-Qaeda News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">CENTCOM says the strike in northwest Syria on Friday killed a man tied to the December attack that killed US troops and an interpreter.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/al_jazeera_staff_150119130629458\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768694230_935_2017-06-08T131939Z_1189275883_RC11B0FE7F20_RTRMADP_3_GULF-QATAR-JAZEERA-1714943623.jpg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 17 Jan 202617 Jan 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>The United States says an air strike in northwestern Syria has killed an al-Qaeda-affiliated leader who had ties to an ISIL (ISIS) member involved in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/13\/joint-syrian-us-patrol-comes-under-attack-near-palmyra-state-media\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> deadly ambush<\/a> of US forces last month.<\/p>\n<p>The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday that an air strike a day earlier killed Bilal Hasan al-Jasim, who was \u201cdirectly connected with the ISIS gunman who killed and injured American and Syrian personnel\u201d in mid-December.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no safe place for those who conduct, plot, or inspire attacks on American citizens and our warfighters. We will find you,\u201d CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Two US soldiers and a military interpreter were killed in the ISIL ambush in the Syrian city of Palmyra on December 13.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the US has carried out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/1\/10\/us-launches-large-scale-attacks-against-isil-in-syria-after-deadly-ambush\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">series of large-scale strikes<\/a> in Syria in what it says is a response to the deadly attack on US forces.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, CENTCOM said US forces and their partners had struck more than 100 ISIL \u201cinfrastructure and weapons\u201d sites since the US military launched its retaliatory operation in December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, US and partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/30\/us-says-it-killed-or-captured-25-isil-operatives-in-syria-over-nine-days\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">forces have captured<\/a> more than 300 ISIS operatives and killed over 20 across Syria during the past year,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump had promised to inflict significant damage on those responsible for the deadly attack on US troops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you, in Syria, there will be a lot of big damage done to the people that did it,\u201d Trump said on December 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CENTCOM says the strike in northwest Syria on Friday killed a man tied to the December attack that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[26643,23,171400,129,4379,3,1207,21,19,22,20,25,1209,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-413889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-al-qaeda","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-isil-isis","11":"tag-middle-east","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-syria","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-us-canada","21":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}