(Beirut) Two US airstrikes in Syria killed 37 people affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) and a group linked to Al-Qaeda, the US military announced on Sunday. She said two of the dead were high-ranking terrorists.
US Central Command said it struck northwest Syria on Tuesday, targeting a high-ranking member of the al-Qaeda-linked Hurras al-Deen group and eight others. He said the group was responsible for overseeing military operations.
On September 16, a “large-scale airstrike” on an IS training camp at an undisclosed location in central Syria killed 28 people, including “at least four Syrian leaders,” the official said. central command.
“The airstrike will disrupt ISIS’s ability to conduct operations against U.S. interests, as well as our allies and partners,” the statement read.
There are about 900 U.S. forces in Syria, along with an undisclosed number of contractors, primarily trying to prevent any return of the extremist group ISIS, which swept through Iraq and Syria in 2014, taking control vast areas of territory.
U.S. forces advise and assist their main allies in northeast Syria, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, located near strategic areas where Iranian-backed terrorist groups are present, including a key border crossing with Iraq.