{"id":194036,"date":"2025-12-20T01:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/194036\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T01:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:24:07","slug":"us-launches-airstrikes-against-dozens-of-islamic-state-targets-in-syria-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/194036\/","title":{"rendered":"US launches airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria | US military"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 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

The attacks come after Donald Trump vowed to hit back after an attack last weekend in Syria<\/a> by a suspected Islamic State member.<\/p>\n

A US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, described the strikes as a large-scale response that included targets across central Syria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two US Iowa national guard members 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

There are currently 1,000 US troops in Syria, posted with the mission to prevent the resurgence of IS in the region.<\/p>\n

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth suggested attacks against IS would continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the beginning of a war \u2013 it is a declaration of vengeance,\u201d Hegseth said on social media<\/a>. \u201cThe United States of America, under President Trump\u2019s leadership, will never hesitate and never relent to defend our people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hegseth added: \u201cToday, we hunted and we killed our enemies. Lots of them. And we will continue.\u201d He offered no other details about the strikes.<\/p>\n

The Americans killed last weekend were the first US casualties in the country since the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad last year. They were supporting counter-terrorism operations against the Islamic State when they were attacked by a lone gunman, per officials in both countries.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Trump signed a law repealing a final batch of crippling economic sanctions on Syria, which were imposed to punish Assad for human rights abuses during the country\u2019s civil war. After Assad was ousted in a December 2024, advocates pushed to have the sanctions lifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US military launched airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday in retaliation for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-194036","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\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}