Helicopters and reconnaissance aircraft belonging to the US-led International Coalition carried out an airdrop operation early Wednesday morning in the town of Atmeh in the northern countryside of Idlib Governorate, near the Syrian-Turkish border in northwestern Syria.
Local sources told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that two International Coalition helicopters carried out the airdrop, with cover from two other coalition reconnaissance aircraft, in conjunction with ground forces from the General Security Service, part of the Syrian Internal Security Forces, who were searching for a leading figure in ISIS.
According to the same sources, the airdrop targeted several homes owned by Abdul Qader Mustafa Khaled Qaddour, Mustafa Abdul Qader Khaled Qaddour, Wael Ahmed Mustafa Khaled Qaddour, and Muhammad Ahmed Mustafa Khaled Qaddour, in addition to female immigrants of foreign nationalities.
The sources explained that the individuals whose homes were targeted were released after the operation, which lasted approximately two hours. Meanwhile, Syrian security forces conducted raids and combing operations in agricultural lands surrounding the four homes.
There was no information about casualties or injuries, nor did they reveal the fate of the targeted individual, which remains unknown. It is worth noting that the city of Al-Bab in the eastern Aleppo countryside witnessed a joint security operation on July 25th between the International Coalition and Syrian security forces. This operation resulted in the killing of three ISIS members and the arrest of a prominent Iraqi leader in the organization, the first such cooperation between the two sides.
The New Arab
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