Beirut: US forces in eastern Syria killed two Daesh "officers", according to the US Central Command on Sunday.
Without mentioning a specific location, CENTCOM said that the forces "conducted a successful helicopter strike in eastern Syria at 2:57 a.m. (2357 GMT) ... killing two Daesh officers."

According to the statement, one of those killed was identified as "Anas", an "official from the Syrian province" who was engaged in "plotting and facilitating operations in eastern Syria".

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, it was the "most prominent" anti-Daesh operation in at least three weeks.

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An anti-terrorist unit of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took part in Sunday's operation, according to Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman. The target area of the operation was the village of al-Zor in eastern Deir Ezzor province.

A "one-sided operation" according to CENTCOM, which also stated that "preliminary assessments indicate that no civilians were killed or injured."
The SDF, the de facto army of the Kurds in northern Syria, is backed by the United States and was in charge of the struggle that ousted Daesh from the last of its Syrian territory in 2019.

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Hundreds of US troops are still in Syria as part of an international coalition battling the remnants of Daesh.
Following a deadly bombing in Istanbul last month attributed to Kurdish groups, Turkey claimed it began attacking positions of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria and Iraq on 20 November.

The Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the flagship of the SDF, which Ankara views as an offshoot of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, has been claimed by Ankara to have attacked its positions (PKK).

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On Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and urged him to "clean out" Kurdish forces from the northern Syrian border region.

The SDF has issued a warning that a possible Turkish ground offensive would jeopardize the fight against Daesh.