{"id":359663,"date":"2025-12-20T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359663\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T08:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:57:20","slug":"us-conducts-airstrikes-against-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359663\/","title":{"rendered":"US conducts airstrikes against Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WASHINGTON (Gray DC) &#8211; The US launching strikes in Syria, after two American soldiers were killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth calling it a \u201cdeclaration of vengeance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">US officials say multiple targets were hit in Syria on Friday, after an apparent ISIS attack that killed two American soldiers and an interpreter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Secretary of War <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecWar\/status\/2002140737060692098?s=20\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecWar\/status\/2002140737060692098?s=20\">Pete Hegseth taking to X<\/a> saying this is not the beginning of war, it\u2019s a declaration of vengeance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Adding \u201cThe United States of America, under President Trump\u2019s leadership, will never hesitate and never relent to defend our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">President Donald Trump confirmed the strikes, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PressSec\/status\/2002152303026225455?s=20\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PressSec\/status\/2002152303026225455?s=20\">posting on social media <\/a>\u201cvery serious retaliation, just as he had promised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Pentagon estimating the retaliation campaign killed around 23 people. They say they also recovered devices and electronics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">ISIS has not yet claimed responsibility for that December 13th attack\u2026that killed Sergeant William Nathaniel \u201cNate\u201d Howard, and Sergeant Edgar Torres-Tovar, both with the Iowa National Guard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">President Trump paid witness to their service at the dignified transfer of their remains Wednesday at Dover Air Base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Following the transfer, Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who also has served in the Iowa National Guard, paid tribute to the two men and their interpreter, \u201cThese men are two of our nation\u2019s finest. A true testament to the selfless bravery it takes to put on the uniform and keep our homeland safe from the threat of radical Islamic terror. They are also a reminder that our freedom is not free, and every American owes an enormous debt of gratitude to our servicemembers who put their lives on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An estimated 18 hundred Iowa National Guard Soldiers are currently deployed in the region, according to Governor Kim Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Gray DC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (Gray DC) &#8211; The US launching strikes in Syria, after two American soldiers were killed. Secretary of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359664,"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-359663","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\/359663","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=359663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}