A joint raid by the US forces and a local Syrian group targeting an Islamic State (IS) militant instead resulted in the killing of a man who had been working undercover to gather intelligence on the jihadist organisation, his family and Syrian officials told The Associated Press. Khaled al-Masoud was killed on October 19 during the operation in Dumayr, a town east of Damascus, the Syrian capital. According to his relatives, al-Masoud had spent years spying on IS — first for the insurgent forces led by Ahmed al-Sharaa and later for al-Sharaa’s interim government, which was formed in January following the December 2024 ouster of then-President Bashar al-Assad. Local residents told AP that the US troops carried out the raid alongside the Syrian Free Army (SFA), a US-trained opposition

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