{"id":358926,"date":"2025-12-19T23:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358926\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:32:22","slug":"u-s-forces-launch-strike-against-isis-in-syria-in-retaliation-for-attack-that-killed-3-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358926\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. forces launch strike against ISIS in Syria in retaliation for attack that killed 3 Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. military has launched a large-scale strike against Islamic State group infrastructure and weapons sites in Syria, officials said Friday, following an attack on U.S. and partner forces in Syria last week that killed three Americans. <\/p>\n

“Because of ISIS\u2019s vicious killing of brave American Patriots in Syria, whose beautiful souls I welcomed home to American soil earlier this week in a very dignified ceremony, I am hereby announcing that the United States is inflicting very serious retaliation, just as I promised, on the murderous terrorists responsible,” President Donald Trump posted Friday<\/a> on Truth Social. “We are striking very strongly against ISIS strongholds in Syria, a place soaked in blood which has many problems, but one that has a bright future if ISIS can be eradicated.”<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted Friday<\/a> about the attack on X. <\/p>\n

\u201cEarlier today, U.S. forces commenced OPERATION HAWKEYE STRIKE in Syria to eliminate ISIS fighters, infrastructure, and weapons sites in direct response to the attack on U.S. forces that occurred on December 13th in Palmyra, Syria,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Additional information about the strike and total casualties was not immediately available. Hegseth said in the post that “lots” of “enemies” were killed. <\/p>\n

Trump vowed retaliation<\/a> last Saturday after two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian U.S. interpreter were killed in the attack, an incident the Department of Defense said occurred during a counterterrorism engagement. <\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump told the world that the United States would retaliate for the killing of our heroes by ISIS in Syria, and he is delivering on that promise,” Anna Kelly, White House deputy press secretary, said Friday about the attack. <\/p>\n

Three other U.S. personnel were wounded in the Dec. 13 attack in Palmyra, Sean Parnell, the Pentagon\u2019s chief spokesperson, said on X last Saturday.<\/a> The soldiers \u201cwere conducting a key leader engagement\u201d in \u201csupport of ongoing counter-ISIS operations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Courtney Kube is a correspondent covering national security and the military for the NBC News Investigative Unit.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Gabe Gutierrez is a senior White House correspondent for NBC News.<\/p>\n

Babak Dehghanpisheh is an NBC News Digital international editor based in New York.<\/p>\n

Mosheh Gains contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. military has launched a large-scale strike against Islamic State group infrastructure and weapons sites in Syria,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-358926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}