Who did the U.S. just kill in Syria?
The answer matters.
On June 19, U.S. forces conducted a precision airstrike in northwest Syria that killed Ali Husayn al-‘Ulaywi, a senior ISIS leader who served as the military and operational commander of ISIS’s Syrian branch in Aleppo Province.
He was not just another ISIS fighter. Al-‘Ulaywi was responsible for military operations, expansion efforts, and managing a major financial network for ISIS Syria that generated revenue through oil theft and the illegal extraction of petroleum resources.
His importance becomes even clearer when looking at ISIS’s efforts to rebuild. Following the January 2026 release and escape of ISIS prisoners from al-Shaddadi Prison in Syria, more than 60 of those escapees had joined al-‘Ulaywi’s network in Aleppo, where he was actively working to expand ISIS’s presence.
His background also highlights the complexity of the extremist landscape in Syria. Before joining ISIS, al-‘Ulaywi was a member of al-Qaeda’s affiliate Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group that now governs Syria. He later switched allegiance to ISIS and rose to become the group’s military commander in Aleppo.
This is why counterterrorism requires more than tracking territory. ISIS lost its caliphate, but the networks, financing, leadership pipelines, and extremist ideology never disappeared. Terrorist organizations adapt. They rebuild. They wait. Knowing the enemy is how you stop the next attack.
BREAKING: Elon Musk calls out Ro Khanna as his household wealth reportedly grew from roughly $27–46 million to an estimated $232.7 million.
• 631 million total trade volume across 38,666 trades since entering Congress, most prolific Democratic trader in House history.
• 2022 investigation found 15% overlap between his legislative work and family stock holdings
• Ro Khanna’s AI-focused trades returned +112.1% excess over the S&P 500 from January 2024 through April 2026, far beating Nancy Pelosi’s +38.5% outperformance.
• 143% return on Nvidia shares bought via wife’s trust in Feb 2024, right before CHIPS Act helped double the stock
Ro 'the Robber' Khanna seems to be the most active insider trader in Congress.
Black pilot, West Point graduate, and combat veteran Wesley Hunt delivered a masterclass response:
“Hey Jasmine… Black pilot here.
I graduated from West Point. I went through Army flight school. I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache. I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color. Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Suggesting that Black pilots, engineers, doctors, or leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard. I wanted the same standard.”
He ended with a powerful line:
“Merit isn’t racist. Excellence isn’t discriminatory. And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.”
This is the kind of clarity and backbone America needs right now.
Send the video to everyone you know showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments and how the police cravenly kowtowed to his murderer.
Legacy mainstream media, same ones who wrote about George Floyd millions of times, are dead silent about Nowak.