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US onAir – 02/03/22

US onAir - 02/03/22

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MIDDLE EAST … U.S.-led raid kills ISIS leader. What’s next in the fight against the terrorist group?
PBS NewsHourFebruary 3, 2022 (04:23)
PBS NEWSHOUR…Live episode, Feb. 3, 2022
Associated Press, February 3, 2022 – 6:00 pm (ET)

https://apnews.com/article/biden-says-us-raid-syria-killed-islamic-state-group-leader-ca598136de014e008f746a35f6f721b0

MIDDLE EAST… Biden gives remarks on an overnight raid that killed an ISIS leader in northern Syria
Associated Press, February 3, 2022 – 9:30 am (ET)

https://apnews.com/article/biden-says-us-raid-syria-killed-islamic-state-group-leader-ca598136de014e008f746a35f6f721b0

MIDDLE EAST…Islamic State leader killed as US attacks Syria hideout
Associated Press, Ghaith Al-Sayed et al.February 3, 2022

The leader of the violent Islamic State group died in a U.S. military raid Thursday, blowing himself up along with members of his family as American special operations forces assaulted his hideout in northwestern Syria, President Joe Biden said.

It was the second time in less than three years that the U.S. took out a leader of the group that at the height of its power controlled more than 40,000 square miles stretching from Syria to Iraq and ruled over 8 million people.

U.S. officials called the operation a “significant blow” to the organization, which has been trying for a resurgence with attacks in the region, including an assault late last month to seize a prison in northeast Syria holding at least 3,000 IS detainees.

The raid targeted Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who took over as head of the militant group on Oct. 31, 2019, just days after leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died during a U.S. raid. Al-Qurayshi, unlike his predecessor, was far from a household name, a secretive man who presided over a far diminished version of the group and didn’t appear in public.

PENTAGON…Press secretary John Kirby holds a briefing
PBS NewsHour, February 3, 2022 – 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm (ET)
SUPREME COURT… Examining President Biden’s pledge to diversify the federal judiciary
PBS NewsHourFebruary 2, 2022 (06:44)

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