| A service member from the U.S.-led, counter-ISIS coalition was killed during a flurry of operations in the region over the past week, Central Command officials announced Monday. It’s unclear just yet who perished and where they’re from. Two others in the coalition were also wounded, and they are “from two different nations,” according to CENTCOM, which insisted, “There were no injuries to U.S. personnel or damage to U.S. equipment.” Locations included the Hamrin mountains of Iraq and around Deir ez-Zor, Syria in a series of raids spanning December 30 and January 6. It’s also unclear how many suspected terrorists were killed in the operations. However, CENTCOM said its combined forces captured an “ISIS attack cell leader” during an overnight raid in Syria late last week. “During the operations, ISIS fighters engaged coalition forces on several occasions,” CENTCOM said. Those engagements resulted in coalition airstrikes “using F-16s, F-15s, and A-10s,” the latter of which were “successful in eliminating the ISIS fighters within a cave,” according to CENTCOM. |