THIRTEEN people including six children and four women are reported dead from a US special forces raid within Syria’s jihadist-controlled Idlib province.

US President Joe Biden said the mission had killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quaryshi, the head of the Islamic State (Isis) terror group since the US killing of its founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, also in Idlib, in 2019.

The overnight raid took place in Atmeh, a town near the Turkish border where tens of thousands of people displaced by the Syrian civil war have fled, many of them rebel fighters taking refuge in the last part of Syria still controlled by insurgents.