US forces carried out several airstrikes in Syria on Monday. They targeted the positions of terrorists from the Islamic State (IS) organization, while they killed 12 of her fighters. The American armed forces informed about it on Monday. TASR refers to the AFP report.
“The strikes against IS leaders, fighters and camps were carried out as part of an ongoing mission to disrupt, dismantle and defeat IS,” the Central Command of the US Armed Forces (CENTCOM) said on social networks. According to the American command, the goal of the operation is prevent the “terrorist group from carrying out external operations and ensure that IS could not regroup in areas of central Syria”.
AFP reminds that after the fall of the regime of long-time Syrian President Bashar Assad USA intensified attacks on IS positions. American President Joe Biden, after the capture of Damascus by rebel forces, declared that they would not allow IS terrorists to take advantage of the power vacuum that had occurred in Syria, and therefore American soldiers they will continue to remain on Syrian territory.
They are deployed on the territory of Syria 900 American soldiers, who conduct combat operations against IS. They are mainly located base at-Tanf in the desert near the borders with Jordan and Iraq. At the end of 2015, IS controlled large parts of Syria and Iraq, and millions of people were living under the de facto rule of the terrorists. However, it almost completely defeated the organization in the Middle East in 2019 an international coalition led by the United States.
