She said she targeted members of the Islamic State group and Hurras al-Din, a group linked to ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
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The American armed forces claimed, on Sunday, September 29, having killed 37 members of terrorist groups in two separate strikes in Syria, according to a press release from the American military Command for the Middle East (Centcom).
A first strike, on September 16, targeted an Islamic State group training camp and killed 28 of its members, including at least four officials, Centcom says.
On September 24, a bombing in northwest Syria targeting Hurras al-Din, a group linked to ISIS and Al-Qaeda, left nine deadincluding a senior executive.
The United States has around 2,500 troops in Iraq and nearly 900 in Syria, as part of the international coalition created in 2014 to fight the Islamic State group. It must cease its operations in Iraq at the end of September 2025, while continuing them in Syria, Baghdad and Washington announced on Friday. At the end of August, the American army and Iraqi security forces killed fifteen IS fighters during an operation in Iraq.