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The U.S. military has said that it carried out an air strike in northern Syria yesterday, October 6 that killed two Islamic State members including a leader it named as Abu-Hashum al-Umawi.

The strike came just hours after a rare U.S. helicopter raid on a government-held village in Syria’s northeast which killed another Islamic State official. The U.S. military’s Central Command said initial assessments indicated no civilian casualties. There were no U.S. military casualties also.