{"id":49837,"date":"2015-05-16T19:08:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T19:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/w_post_senior_isis_leader_killed_in_u-s-_raid_in_syria\/"},"modified":"2015-05-16T19:08:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T19:08:26","slug":"w_post_senior_isis_leader_killed_in_u-s-_raid_in_syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49837","title":{"rendered":"(W Post) Senior ISIS leader killed in U.S. raid in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Special Operations killed a senior Islamic State leader in a ground raid inside Syria on Friday night, the White House said in a statement Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said that Abu Sayyaf, described as having a senior role in overseeing gas and oil operations that have been a key source of revenue for the militant group, had been killed when he \u201cengaged U.S. forces\u201d\u009d and resisted capture.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, who was said to be an Islamic State member, was captured during the operation, and a young woman who appeared to be held as a slave of the couple was freed. The young woman was a member of the Yazidi sect in Iraq, the White House statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe intend to reunite her with her family as soon as feasible,\u201d\u009d said National Security Council spokesman Bernadette Meehan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-kills-islamic-state-leader-in-syria-raid\/2015\/05\/16\/31280b26-fbca-11e4-a13c-193b1241d51a_story.html?wpmk=MK0000203\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Special Operations killed a senior Islamic State leader in a ground raid inside Syria on Friday night, the White House said in a statement Saturday. The statement said that Abu Sayyaf, described as having a senior role in overseeing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49837\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,143,168,203,556,148,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-middle-east","category-syria","category-terrorism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}