US forces struck more than 70 Islamic State (IS) group targets in Syria in what President Donald Trump described as "very serious retaliation" for an attack that killed three Americans last weekend.
Washington said a lone gunman from the militant group carried out the 13 December attack in Palmyra, home to UNESCO-listed ancient ruins and once controlled by jihadist fighters, that left two US soldiers and a US civilian dead.
In response, the United States "struck more than 70 targets at multiple locations across central Syria with fighter jets, attack helicopters, and artillery," US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement.
The international coalition has delivered a missile strike on positions held by the Islamic State terrorist group (outlawed in Russia) in Syria from a military base in Syria’s al-Hasakah Governorate, the Al Hadath television reported.
The missile strikes targeted militant hideouts in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate. The coalition is launching the attack from its al-Shaddadi base in northeastern Syria’s al-Hasakah Governorate.
According to Al Hadath, IS positions are also being attacked by the coalition’s warplanes. The channel reported that the military operation involves at least six combat planes of the coalition forces.
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The United States military is “striking very seriously against ISIS [ISIL] strongholds in Syria”, President Donald Trump said, a week after two US soldiers and an interpreter were killed in Syria’s Palmyra city.
ReplyDelete“Because of ISIS’s vicious killing of brave American Patriots in Syria… I am hereby announcing that the United States is inflicting very serious retaliation, just as I promised, on the murderous terrorists responsible,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Friday.
The Americans killed in the Palmyra attack last weekend were Iowa National Guard sergeants William Howard and Edgar Torres Tovar, and Ayad Mansoor Sakat, a civilian from Michigan who worked as an interpreter.
ReplyDeleteMr Trump, Mr Hegseth and top military officer General Dan Caine were among the US officials who attended a somber ceremony marking the return of the dead to the United States on Wednesday.
Russia also did this for seven years, and it didn't help much. ISIS has already infiltrated urban areas, security forces, and the Syrian population. Furthermore, this war is lost if ISIS's opponent has a similar ideology rather than an antithetical one.
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