{"id":359231,"date":"2025-12-19T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359231\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:05:07","slug":"us-launches-airstrikes-against-dozens-of-islamic-state-targets-in-syria-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359231\/","title":{"rendered":"US launches airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria | US military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US military<\/a> launched airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday in retaliation for an attack on US personnel, two US officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The attacks come after Donald Trump vowed to hit back after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/13\/americans-killed-syria-islamic-state\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an attack last weekend in Syria<\/a> by a suspected Islamic State member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, described the strikes as a large-scale response that included targets across central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/syria\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Two US Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed on Saturday in the central Syrian town of Palmyra by an attacker who targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces before being shot dead, according to the US military. Three other US soldiers were also wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A US-led coalition has carried out airstrikes and ground operations in Syria targeting Islamic State suspects in recent months, often with the involvement of Syria\u2019s security forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More details soon \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US military launched airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday in retaliation for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-359231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}