A predawn U.S. military raid in northwestern Syria targeted and killed a senior member of the Islamic State group who was seen as a candidate to be the leader of the group in Syria. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/world/senior-isis-killed-us-syria/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #syria #islamicstate

United Nations sanctions monitors have seen no "active ties" this year between al-Qaida and the Islamist group leading Syria's interim government, an unpublished U.N. report said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/12/world/un-report-syria-al-qaida/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #alqaida #terrorism #islamicstate #syria #middleeast #un #us