08 August, 2017
The other ISIS members killed included figures responsible for encouraging lone wolf attacks around the world and recruiters who facilitated the movement of foreign fighters to Syria. He was also responsible for planning numerous terrorist attacks, they added, including the failed plot to bomb the 2016 Israel-Albania soccer match in Albania. Though U.S. -backed fighters suffered heavy casualties in Raqqa, humanitarian groups say civilians have borne the brunt of the fighting.
A report released by the US-led coalition says its airstrikes against purported Daesh targets in Syria and Iraq have claimed the lives of at least 624 civilians since the start of the military campaign in 2014. He was known as the most prominent and radical ethnic Albanian fighter in Syria.
Additionally, three Airwars reports from October 2016, November 2016 and May were found to be duplicates of ones the coalition has already assessed or is in the process of assessing, the coalition said.
- Three civilians were killed and one injured during a strike on an ISIS vehicle near Raqqa, Syria, on November 14, 2015.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the IS would likely use such weapons should the SDF further advance into Raqqa.
The coalition completed an assessment of 132 civilian casualties reports in June, determining that only seven of them were credible and indicated that 21 unintentional civilian deaths took place.
Irfan Hafiqi, a fellow ethnic Albanian and deputy to Muhaxheri, was killed by a June 7 coalition airstrike near Qayira, Syria. Ismaili had key connections with ISIS external terror attack planners in Europe and Syria, and personally planned and coordinated external ISIS terror attacks.
The state news agency repeated the government stance that the Washington-led coalition has been formed "illegitimately, as it was formed under the pretext of fighting terrorism, while the facts suggest that the coalition is attacking infrastructure and committing massacres".
- One civilian was killed during a strike on an ISIS headquarters near Deir al-Zour, Syria, on May 10.
