A drone strike believed to have been carried out by the US-led coalition in northern Syria on Friday killed one man with Islamic State (ISIS) links and wounded a passerby, a paramedic group and an opposition war monitor said, according to The Associated Press.
The Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, said the man was killed while riding a motorcycle. It added that a passerby was also wounded.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the man targeted by the drone was linked to ISIS. The Observatory said the attack occurred on the road connecting the town of al-Bab with the village of Bazaa.
The US-led coalition has been targeting ISIS and Al-Qaeda terrorists in the region for years.
In April, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed that a senior ISIS leader in Syria was among three members of the group who were killed in a US helicopter raid in northern Syria.
Earlier that month, US forces killed an ISIS senior leader in a strike in northwest Syria. The leader was identified as Khalid 'Aydd Ahmad Al-Jabouri, who the US army said was responsible for planning attacks in Europe and Turkey, and developing ISIS's leadership network.
In February, an ISIS group leader was killed and four US troops wounded in a US helicopter raid on northeast Syria.
A month earlier, American forces captured two ISIS members during an air and ground assault in eastern Syria.
ISIS overran large swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a "caliphate" in land it controlled.
Several military offensives, including those backed by the US-led international coalition, have since seen ISIS lose most areas it once controlled, including the loss of their de facto capital in Raqqa, Syria.
However, ISIS sleeper calls remain in the area continue to carry out deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq. The US has roughly 900 troops in Syria as part of its effort to defeat ISIS in the region.
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