The United States launched another strike against ISIS in Syria over the deaths of three Americans.
Last month, two National Guard soldiers and their American interpreter were killed in Syria by the terrorist organization.
On Saturday, the US issued another strike against the Middle Eastern country in revenge for the deaths of Sergeant Edgar Brian Torres Tovar and Sergeant William Nathaniel Howard, who were killed on December 13, Fox News reported.
No more information has been released at this time. President Donald Trump has not made an official statement.
The US previously struck Syria on December 19.
The Trump Administration announced last month that it had killed at least seven ISIS fighters and captured around a dozen members of the terrorist group.
US Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, said in a statement that 11 missions were carried out from December 20 through December 29, following initial airstrikes on IS weapons and infrastructure.
Those airstrikes, conducted in coordination with Jordanian authorities, struck 70 targets across central Syria.
The US previously struck Syria on December 19 (pictured). US forces struck again on Saturday, but no information has been released.
Fox News said the strikes were in revenge for the deaths Sergeant Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, Iowa, and Sergeant William Nathaniel Howard of Marshalltown, Iowa
In the operations since, the US military and other forces from the region, including Syria, four weapons caches have been destroyed, Centcom said.
‘We will not relent,’ Adm. Brad Cooper, who leads the command, said in the statement. ‘We are steadfast in commitment to working with regional partners to root out the ISIS threat posed to US and regional security.’
US forces will now continue ‘to hunt down terrorist operatives, eliminate ISIS networks and work with partners to prevent an ISIS resurgence,’ Cooper vowed.
Targets ranged from senior Islamic State (IS) members who were being closely monitored by military officials to lower-level foot soldiers, according to a US official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations.
The official said a growing collaboration between the United States and Syria’s relatively new government meant that American forces were able to attack IS in areas of the country where they previously did not operate.
Syrian forces were the driving force behind some of the missions against the militant group this year, the official added at the time.
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US launches more strikes against ISIS in Syria as revenge for deaths of three Americans