*US SAYS AIRSTRIKE KILLED DAESH-ISIS OFFICIAL IN SYRIA* *WASHINGTON*: The US military announced Thursday that a recent airstrike had killed an Daesh group official in northwest Syria. In a post to social media, US Central Command said its forces “conducted a precision airstrike in northwest Syria killing Rakhim Boev, a Syria-based Daesh official,” using another name for Daesh. The post on X said Boev was “involved in planning external operations threatening US citizens, our partners, and civilians.”