BEIRUT (AP) — A collection of U.S. airstrikes focused a number of camps run by the Islamic State group in Syria in an operation the U.S. army stated will disrupt the extremists from conducting assaults within the area and past.
The U.S. Central Command stated the airstrikes have been performed Friday, with out specifying during which components of Syria. About 900 U.S. troops have been deployed in japanese Syria alongside the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces that have been instrumental within the combat in opposition to IS militants.
Regardless of their defeat, assaults by IS sleeper cells in Iraq and Syria have been on the rise over the previous years, with scores of individuals killed or wounded.
The Islamic State group seized territory on the peak of its energy and declared a caliphate in massive components of Iraq and Syria in 2014, however was defeated in Iraq in 2017. In March 2019, the extremists misplaced the final sliver of land they as soon as managed in japanese Syria.
The U.S. army stated the strikes will disrupt the flexibility of the Islamic State group to plan, arrange and conduct assaults in opposition to america, its allies and companions, and civilians all through the area and past.
It stated battle injury assessments have been underway and there have been no civilian casualties.
Final month, Iraq’s army stated that Iraqi forces and American troops killed a senior IS commander who was needed by america, in addition to a number of different distinguished militants.
At its peak, the group dominated an space half the dimensions of the UK the place it enforced its excessive interpretation of Islam, which included assaults on spiritual minority teams and harsh punishment of Muslims deemed to be apostates.
