{"id":356897,"date":"2025-12-20T03:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356897\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T03:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:59:08","slug":"u-s-launches-vengeance-strikes-against-isis-targets-in-syria-hegseth-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356897\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. launches ‘vengeance’ strikes against ISIS targets in Syria, Hegseth says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The U.S. military launched airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday in retaliation for an attack on U.S. personnel, officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n

A U.S.-led coalition had already been carrying out airstrikes and ground operations in Syria targeting ISIS suspects in recent months, often with the involvement of Syria’s security forces. <\/p>\n

President Donald Trump had vowed to retaliate after an attack on U.S. personnel last weekend in Syria by a suspected member of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). <\/p>\n

U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the strikes targeted “ISIS fighters, infrastructure, and weapons sites” and said the mission was named Operation Hawkeye Strike.<\/p>\n

“This is not the beginning of a war \u2014 it is a declaration of vengeance,” Hegseth said. “Today, we hunted and we killed our enemies. Lots\u00a0of them. And we will continue.”<\/p>\n

\"TwoThis undated combo photo created with images released by the Iowa National Guard shows Sgts. William Nathaniel Howard, left, and Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar. The two soldiers were killed in an attack in Syria that the U.S. military blame on ISIS. (Iowa National Guard\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Trump said on social media that the Syrian government fully supported the strikes and that the U.S. was inflicting “very serious retaliation.” <\/p>\n

One U.S. official said the strikes hit more than 70 targets across central Syria and were carried out by F-15 and A-10 jets, along with Apache helicopters and HIMARS rocket systems.<\/p>\n

Syria reiterated its steadfast commitment to fighting the ISIS and ensuring that it has “no safe havens on Syrian territory,” according to a statement by the foreign ministry. <\/p>\n

2 U.S. soldiers, civilian interpreter killed<\/p>\n

Two U.S. 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 U.S. military. Three other U.S. soldiers were also wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n

A U.S.-led coalition has carried out airstrikes and ground operations in Syria targeting ISIS suspects in recent months, often with the involvement of Syria’s security forces.<\/p>\n

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

The Syrian Interior Ministry has described the attacker as a member of the Syrian security forces suspected of sympathizing with ISIS, a militant group fighting to establish an Islamist state.<\/p>\n

Syria’s government is now led by former rebels who toppled leader Bashar al-Assad last year after a 13-year civil war and includes members of Syria’s former al-Qaeda branch who broke\u00a0with the group and clashed with ISIS<\/p>\n

Syria has been co-operating with a U.S.-led coalition against ISIS, reaching an agreement last month when President Ahmed al-Sharaa visited the White House. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-356897","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\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}