{"id":687491,"date":"2026-01-10T20:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/687491\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T20:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:47:14","slug":"us-launches-more-strikes-against-isis-in-syria-as-revenge-for-deaths-of-three-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/687491\/","title":{"rendered":"US launches more strikes against ISIS in Syria as revenge for deaths of three Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-1882\/alyssa-guzman.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ALYSSA GUZMAN, US NEWS REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  15:35 EST, 10 January 2026   |  Updated:  15:42 EST, 10 January 2026   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The United States launched another strike against <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/isis\/index.html\" id=\"mol-905dba40-ee63-11f0-9950-cf3c1074f760\" rel=\"noopener\">ISIS<\/a> in <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/syria\/index.html\" id=\"mol-9063fbd0-ee63-11f0-9950-cf3c1074f760\" rel=\"noopener\">Syria<\/a> over the deaths of three Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Last month, two National Guard soldiers and their American interpreter were killed in Syria by the terrorist organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">On Saturday, the US issued another strike against the Middle Eastern country in revenge for the deaths of\u00a0Sergeant Edgar Brian Torres Tovar and\u00a0Sergeant William Nathaniel Howard, who were killed on December 13, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cz9fsXToWTY\">Fox News <\/a>reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">No more information has been released at this time. President <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/donald_trump\/index.html\" id=\"mol-90409550-ee63-11f0-9950-cf3c1074f760\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> has not made an official statement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The US previously struck Syria on December 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Those airstrikes, conducted in coordination with Jordanian authorities, struck 70 targets across central Syria.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f64bdd100668fd35\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/105124935-15452245-US_Central_Command_which_oversees_the_Middle_East_said_in_a_stat-a-139_1768077006.jpeg\" height=\"359\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The US previously struck Syria on December 19 (pictured). US forces struck again on Saturday, but no information has been released.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The US previously struck Syria on December 19 (pictured). US forces struck again on Saturday, but no information has been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-da3b6b7fa84c2f2a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/105125099-15452245-af-a-141_1768077050494.jpg\" height=\"345\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Edgar Brian Torres Tovar was killed on December 13\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-e22e6aa4d10808ce\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/105125101-15452245-af-a-140_1768077050493.jpg\" height=\"345\" width=\"306\" alt=\"William Nathaniel Howard was killed on December 13\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">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<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In the operations since, the US military and other forces from the region, including Syria, four weapons caches have been destroyed, Centcom said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We will not relent,&#8217; Adm. Brad Cooper, who leads the command, said in the statement. &#8216;We are steadfast in commitment to working with regional partners to root out the ISIS threat posed to US and regional security.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">US forces will now continue &#8216;to hunt down terrorist operatives, eliminate ISIS networks and work with partners to prevent an ISIS resurgence,&#8217; Cooper vowed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The official said a growing collaboration between the United States and Syria&#8217;s relatively new government meant that American forces were able to attack IS in areas of the country where they previously did not operate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Syrian forces were the driving force behind some of the missions against the militant group this year, the official added at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This is a developing story, please check back for updates.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        US launches more strikes against ISIS in Syria as revenge for deaths of three Americans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ALYSSA GUZMAN, US NEWS REPORTER Published: 15:35 EST, 10 January 2026 | Updated: 15:42 EST, 10 January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[92,34588,12,6500,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-687491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-isis","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-syria","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115872769289328106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}