Tell Abyad ( Syria ) - (AFP) - A suspected member of the Islamic State " ISIS " was killed in a drone strike Monday in northern Syria, according to an AFP correspondent and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

It was not known who carried out the raid, but the Syrian Observatory believed that it was the international coalition led by Washington or the American forces.

An AFP correspondent reported that two explosions sounded in the Hammam al-Turkman area near the city of Tal Abyad, which is under the control of the Syrian factions loyal to Ankara in northern Syria, indicating that one person was killed.

Ismail al-Barho, who lives in a house close to the target, said, "We heard the sound of flight, then the first missile hit and in less than a minute the second missile was fired," adding, "When I arrived at the place, I saw a charred corpse." The strike also resulted, according to him, injuring a female worker in the nearby cotton fields.

The factions' members rushed to the place and asked the residents of the nearby houses to leave, including al-Barho.

Residents of the village told AFP that the target is Ammar al-Yahya (35 years), a Syrian from Hammam al-Turkman, noting that "nothing is known about him except that he previously belonged to the Islamic State."

And the Syrian Observatory reported that the drone strike killed a person suspected of belonging to the Islamic State organization while he was traveling on a motorcycle.

From time to time, the US forces and the international coalition forces against ISIS launch raids, raids or airdrops against suspected members of ISIS in northern and northeastern Syria.

And last week, the US Central Command announced the killing of three leaders of the organization in an airdrop and then a raid in northern Syria.

Since the announcement of the elimination of the "caliphate" of the Islamic State in 2019, the international coalition has been pursuing the organization's hidden leaders and carrying out operations to arrest them in eastern, northern and northwest Syria.

The American forces succeeded in liquidating and arresting leaders in several operations, the most prominent of which was the killing of the leaders of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in October 2019, and then Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi last February in Idlib Governorate (northwest).

In July, the United States announced that it had killed the leader of the organization in Syria, Maher al-Akal, in a strike carried out by a US drone, and the Central Command in the Pentagon described him as "one of the five most prominent leaders" in the extremist organization.