U.S. forces in the cover of darkness took out the leader of the ISIS terrorist group in Syria on Feb. 2, U.S. President Joe Biden announced Thursday. The operation in northwest Syria killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of ISIS. The deceased took over as head of the militant group on Oct. 31, 2019, just days after leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died during a U.S. raid in the same area. The operation was undertaken “to protect the American people and our Allies, and make the world a safer place,” Biden said in a statement. No Americans were killed in the raid. U.S. special forces landed in helicopters and assaulted a house in a rebel-held corner of Syria, clashing for two hours with gunmen, witnesses said. Residents described continuous gunfire and explosions that jolted the town of Atmeh near the Turkish border, an area dotted with camps for internally displaced people from …