{"id":687910,"date":"2026-01-11T01:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/687910\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T01:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:20:20","slug":"us-launches-large-scale-attacks-against-isil-in-syria-after-deadly-ambush-isil-isis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/687910\/","title":{"rendered":"US launches \u2018large-scale\u2019 attacks against ISIL in Syria after deadly ambush | ISIL\/ISIS News"},"content":{"rendered":"

US military says the strikes are in response to an ISIL ambush that killed three American personnel in Palmyra last month.<\/p>\n

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The United States has carried out another round of \u201clarge-scale\u201d attacks against the ISIL or ISIS group in Syria following an ambush that killed two American soldiers<\/a> and a civilian interpreter in the city of Palmyra last month.<\/p>\n

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on Saturday that the attacks occurred at about 17:30 GMT and hit \u201cmultiple ISIS targets across Syria\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur message remains strong: if you harm our warfighters, we will find you and kill you anywhere in the world, no matter how hard you try to evade justice,\u201d\u00a0CENTCOM said.<\/p>\n

The statement did not say whether anyone was killed in the strikes.<\/p>\n

Grainy aerial video accompanying the statement, posted on X, showed several separate explosions, apparently in rural areas.<\/p>\n

CENTCOM said the attacks were carried out alongside partner forces, without specifying which forces had taken part.<\/p>\n

The US is calling the response to the Palmyra attacks<\/a> Operation Hawkeye Strike. The ambush on December 13 involved a lone gunman, who Syria\u2019s Ministry of Interior said was a member of the security forces and had been set to be fired for his hardline views.<\/p>\n

The US military launched Operation Hawkeye Strike on December 19, with a large-scale strike that hit 70 targets across central Syria that had ISIL infrastructure and weapons.<\/p>\n

It said on December 30 that its forces had killed or captured<\/a> about 25 ISIL fighters following the launch of Operation Hawkeye Strike.<\/p>\n

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces has for years been the US\u2019s main partner in the fight against ISIL in Syria, but since the ouster of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, Washington has increasingly been coordinating with the central government in Damascus.<\/p>\n

Syria joined the global coalition against ISIL after reaching an agreement late last year, when Syrian President Ahmed \u200dal-Sharaa visited the White House.<\/p>\n

Syrian officials said last month that leading ISIL figure Taha al-Zoubi had been arrested in the Damascus countryside.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has long been sceptical of Washington\u2019s presence in Syria, ordering the withdrawal of troops during his first term, but ultimately leaving American forces in the country.<\/p>\n

About 1,000 US troops remain in Syria.<\/p>\n

The US military has said it would further reduce the number of American personnel in Syria and eventually reduce its bases in the country to one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US military says the strikes are in response to an ISIL ambush that killed three American personnel in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[37885,839,12,6500,49,978,286,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-687910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-isil-isis","9":"tag-middle-east","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-syria","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-us-canada","15":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115873842682595267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687910","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=687910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}