The New York Instances model of this text is speculating that the chief of ISIS might have been killed on this assault:
One chance could possibly be the chief of the Islamic State, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/us/politics/us-raid-syria.html
In that case, as a lot because it sucks that kids died on this raid, much more kids’s lives will probably be saved consequently.
Additionally:
a senior American army official stated there was an explosion inside the home that was not brought on by U.S. firepower, and was extra probably brought on by the goal of the raid blowing himself up.
edit: appears very probably a jihadi chief since they refused to return out for 2 hours:
A protracted, tense standoff ensued, with loudspeakers blaring warnings in Arabic for everybody in the home to give up, neighbors stated. After about two hours, the home’s occupants had not emerged and a significant battle erupted, with heavy machine gun fireplace and obvious missile strikes that broken the home, collapsed a few of its partitions and blew out its home windows.