WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has launched one other spherical of retaliatory strikes towards the Islamic State in Syria following final month’s ambush that killed two U.S. troopers and one American civilian interpreter within the nation.
The big-scale strikes, performed by the U.S. alongside companion forces, occurred round 12:30 p.m. ET, in keeping with U.S. Central Command. The strikes hit a number of Islamic State targets throughout Syria.
Saturday’s strikes are a part of a broader operation that’s a part of President Donald Trump’s response to the lethal ISIS assault that killed Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, and Ayad Mansoor Sakat, the civilian interpreter, in Palmyra final month.
“Our message stays sturdy: should you hurt our warfighters, we are going to discover you and kill you anyplace on the planet, regardless of how exhausting you attempt to evade justice,” U.S. Central Command mentioned in a press release Saturday.
A day earlier, Syrian officers mentioned their safety forces had arrested the navy chief of IS’s operations within the Levant.
The U.S. navy mentioned Saturday’s strikes had been carried out alongside companion forces with out specifying which forces had taken half.
The Trump administration is looking the response to the Palmyra assaults Operation Hawkeye Strike. Each Torres-Tovar and Howard had been members of the Iowa Nationwide Guard.
It launched Dec. 19 with one other large-scale strike that hit 70 targets throughout central Syria that had IS infrastructure and weapons.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces has for years been the U.S.’s fundamental companion within the struggle towards IS in Syria, however because the ouster of former Syrian President Bashar Assad in December 2024, Washington has more and more been coordinating with the central authorities in Damascus.
Syria not too long ago joined the worldwide coalition towards IS.
