Helicopters at US military base in SyriaWASHINGTON, Feb. 3 which broke down during the operation against the leader of the terrorist group IS * (banned in Russia) Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qureishi in northwestern Syria, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. He stressed that the night raid cost no losses from the Americans. 
In Syria, 13 people were killed in a US operation to kill an ISIS leader*»Although there were no American casualties, one of our helicopters encountered a mechanical failure … It was determined that its further use was impractical and could even be dangerous. Therefore, [the head of the US Central Command, Kenneth] MacKenzie decided to leave the helicopter and destroy it on the spot by means of undermining,» Kirby said 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*, al-Qureishi, was killed. During the operation, Al-Kureishi, according to the military, blew himself up, and several accomplices were eliminated along with him. The militant is believed to have been the most senior member of ISIS since the death of former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.* Terrorist organization banned in Russia announced the death of children during the US operation in Syria
