US President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that the leader of the terrorist group Islamic State, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, died during an overnight raid by US special forces in Syria’s Idlib province that also left several civilians dead. Biden said al-Qurashi detonated an explosive vest he was wearing as US forces approached, killing himself and his family, “in a final act of desperate cowardice.” The US had “removed a major terrorist threat to the world,” Biden said in a White House speech, adding that no soldiers had been harmed during the operation. The Defence Department said a…

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