Sources -- A Joint US-Syria Raid Gone Wrong

«The following report is the result of communications with 4 well-placed Syrian sources speaking anonymously on a subject of significant sensitivity. More details will likely come to light in due course.»

After nightfall on Friday October 17, a small team of U.S. Special Forces arrived on the outskirts of the town of al-Dumayr in the desert northeast of Damascus and teamed up with a unit of Syrian government security forces. For the 5th time since July, U.S. forces were about to launch a joint counter-ISIS raid alongside Syrian forces. This time around, the target was a suspected ISIS operative who had been living undercover outside the Syrian capital for years, feeding intelligence to ISIS and more recently facilitating the movement of ISIS resources from the eastern desert across into the more heavily populated urban centers on the western half of the country. His name: Khaled al-Masoud al-Badri.