Thursday morning, the U.S.-led coalition said it had captured a senior Islamic State group leader in Syria after an early-dawn operation.

Since its defeat on the battlefield three years ago, the jihadist group has been conducting insurgent attacks. The coalition conducts raids and strikes against members of the jihadist group.

"The detained individual was determined to be an experienced bomb maker and facilitator who rose to become one of the group's top leaders in Syria," the statement added, adding that neither civilians nor planes were injured during the operation.

The coalition did not specify where in Syria the raid on Thursday occurred.

Earlier on Thursday, a representative for a separate Turkish-backed Syrian rebel group told Reuters that coalition forces had conducted a helicopter attack in the village of Al-Humaira, just south of the Turkish border. This was the first operation of its sort in the region.

Major Youssef Hamoud, a spokesman for the Syrian National Army (SNA), which Turkey supports, stated that Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters manufactured in the United States were involved but that the exact circumstances were unknown.

"This is the first [U.S.] helicopter landing operation in SNA-controlled territory," he stated.

A person in contact with rebels in the region reported that fighting broke out during the operation.

Abu Ibrahim Al-Hashemi Al-Quraishi, the head of the Islamic State, was killed in a February helicopter raid in the Syrian province of Idlib, controlled by the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group's founder, was also murdered in 2019 when he detonated explosives during a U.S. operation. Quraishi had led the organization since al-death. Baghdadi's