Idlib's displaced traumatized by operation that killed IS leader - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Mouneb Taim

Mouneb Taim

Feb 8, 2022

Atmeh Syria — A neighbor of the residence in which the Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi died during a raid by US special forces is pictured near the house in the town of Atme in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib on Feb. 4, 2022. — AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images

Members of Syria's top jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, led by al-Qaeda's former Syria affiliate, parade with their flags and those of the Taliban's declared "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" through the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib, Syria, Aug. 20, 2021.

Controversy among jihadis in Idlib over killing of Islamic State leader

Khaled al-Khateb

Khaled al-Khateb

A picture shows a snow-covered displacement camp for Yazidis in the area of Dawudya, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Dahuk, Iraqi Kurdistan, Jan. 25, 2022.

Yazidis react to killing of Islamic State leader

Essam Sabry Hafez

Essam Sabry Hafez

Atmeh compound

Women and children among residents killed in US-led Idlib raid

Mouneb Taim

Women mourn by a grave during a mass funeral for Yazidi victims of the Islamic State (IS) group whose remains were found in a mass grave, in the northern Iraqi village of Kojo in Sinjar district, on Dec. 9, 2021.

Islamic State leader’s death brings little solace to Iraq's suffering Yazidis

Elizabeth Hagedorn

Elizabeth Hagedorn

In Washington, DC, reporting on diplomacy, regional politics, human rights