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September 2, 2015       Share:    

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-launches-secret-drone-campaign-to-hunt-islamic-state-leaders-in-syria/2015/09/01/723b3e04-5033-11e5-933e-7d06c647a395_story.html

U.S. Hunts Islamic State Leaders in Syria

(Washington Post) Greg Miller - The CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) are flying drones over Syria in a secret campaign to hunt "high-value" terrorists as part of a targeted killing program, U.S. officials said. The clandestine program represents a significant escalation of the CIA's involvement in the war in Syria. Syria is a new front in a spreading U.S. campaign of secret operations and drone strikes that encompasses Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and parts of North Africa.

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