U.S. Kills ISIS Prison Attack Planner

United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced today that a counter-ISIS raid killed Ibrahim Al Qahtani, an ISIS planner who reportedly was involved in multiple ISIS attacks on detention centers throughout Syria. The most high profile ISIS detention center attack was the Battle of al-Hasakah which was a large-scale Islamic State attack and prison riot aimed at freeing arrested fighters of the Islamic State from al-Sina'a prison in the Ghuwayran (Geweran) area of Al-Hasakah, Syria, which resulted in a partial strategic victory and major propaganda victory for the Islamic State, with hundreds of prisoners, including important Emirs, being freed from captivity. The attack was the largest attack committed by the Islamic State since it lost its last key Syrian territory in 2019.