The U.S. military has  said that it carried out an air strike in northern Syria yesterday that killed two Islamic State members including a leader it named as Abu-Hashum al-Umawi. The strike came just hours after a rare U.S. helicopter raid on a government-held village in Syria's northeast which  killed another Islamic State official.The U.S. military's Central Command said initial assessments indicated no civilian casualties. There were no U.S. military casualties either.

<span style="color: #222222;">The U.S. military has said that it carried out an air strike in northern Syria yesterday, October 6 that killed two Islamic State members including a leader it named as Abu-Hashum al-Umawi. <br />''<br />''The strike came just hours after a rare U.S. helicopter raid on a government-held village in Syria's northeast which killed another Islamic State official. The U.S. military's Central Command said initial assessments indicated no civilian casualties. There were no U.S. military casualties also.</span><br />