Four U.S. soldiers were wounded following a helicopter raid in Syria that killed a senior leader of the ISIS terrorist group, the White House announced Friday.
National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby told reporters the four soldiers and one of the working dogs are “suffering some injuries” after an explosion during the raid late on Thursday.
“The troops and the working dog are in stable condition. They’re being treated at a U.S. medical facility in Iraq,” he said.
ISIS senior leader Hamza al-Homsi, who was overseeing an ISIS network in eastern Syria, was killed in an “explosion on target” in the raid conducted by the U.S. military and the Syrian Democratic Forces, U.S. Central Command announced….