1st LD: U.S. raid kills 32 IS militants in Syria's Deir al-Zour

At least 32 militants with the Islamic State (IS) group, including four commanders, were killed by a U.S. raid in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour, a monitor group reported Sunday.

The slain IS militants were targeted by U.S.-led airstrikes and by a raid the U.S. special forces carried out near the al-Omar oil field in the countryside of Deir al-Zour at the early hours of Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The UK-based watchdog group said four commanders, three of whom were Moroccans, were killed in the U.S.-led attack. It cited "confirmed sources" as claiming that the IS militants of Arab and African origins were accused of leaking information to the U.S.-led anti-terror coalition, which led to the U.S. raids in that oil-rich province.

A day earlier, the Pentagon confirmed that U.S. Special Operations troops based in Iraq carried out a raid in eastern Syria's al-Omar area, killing an IS leader known as Abu Sayyaf, who played a lead role in IS oil operations. Abu Sayyaf's wife was arrested by the U.S. forces during the raid.

Syria's official media didn't comment on the U.S. narrative, but said the Syrian troops killed the so-called "IS minister of oil" in a qualitative operation near al-Omar oil field in Deir al-Zour. Endit