US Department of Defense Spokesman John KirbyWASHINGTON, Feb. 3 conducting an investigation into the deaths of civilians in Syria during the operation to eliminate the leader of the terrorist organization IS*, banned in the Russian Federation, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Kureishi, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said at a briefing. «At the moment, decisions to conduct an investigation or verification was not accepted,» he said.
The White House commented on the liquidation of an IS leader*On Thursday, US President Joe Biden announced that last night, the country's armed forces carried out a counter-terrorist operation in northwestern Syria, as a result of which one of the leaders of the IS* terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Kureishi, was killed . The militant is believed to have been the most senior ISIS member since the death of former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. According to Kirby, only US forces carried out this operation. At the same time, at least three civilians were killed during the operation of the US military against al-Qureyshi in northwestern Syria, and the US military blew up its own helicopter, which broke down during the operation. The responsibility for the deaths of civilians in the United States was assigned to terrorists. * Terrorist organization banned in Russia
