Smoke rises after what activists said were clashes between Al-Rahman corps and forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Al-Hajez garages, near the Damascus countryside governorate building at the southern entrance to Erbeen in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta May 16, 2015. REUTERS/Amer Almohibany
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American special operations forces killed a senior Islamic State leader in a raid in Syria, U.S. officials said on Saturday, an operation that marked a departure from Washington's strategy of relying primarily on air strikes to target militants there.
Delta Force commandos used UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and V-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft to punch deep into eastern Syria from Iraq. They engaged in a firefight and hand-to-hand combat with Islamic State fighters, killed a key figure in the group named as Abu Sayyaf and captured his wife, U.S. officials said.
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