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A Syria show said connected Saturday (December 20, 2025) that astatine slightest 5 Islamic State (IS) radical members including a compartment person were killed successful U.S. strikes overnight successful retaliation for an onslaught past play that near 3 Americans dead.
Washington said a lone gunman from the IS jihadist radical carried retired the December 13 onslaught successful Palmyra — location to UNESCO-listed past ruins and erstwhile controlled by jihadist fighters — that killed 2 U.S. soldiers and a U.S. civilian.
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In response, the United States “struck much than 70 targets astatine aggregate locations crossed cardinal Syria with combatant jets, onslaught helicopters and artillery”, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said successful a statement.
Rami Abdel Rahman, caput of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP that “at slightest 5 members of the Islamic State radical were killed” successful eastbound Syria’s Deir Ezzor province, including the person of a compartment liable for drones successful the area.
A Syrian information root told AFP that the U.S. strikes targeted IS cells successful Syria’s immense Badia godforsaken including successful Homs, Deir Ezzor and Raqa provinces, and did not see crushed operations.
Most of the targets were successful a mountainous country moving northbound of Palmyra including towards Deir Ezzor, the root said, requesting anonymity.
Using different acronym for IS, CENTCOM said “the cognition employed much than 100 precision munitions targeting known ISIS infrastructure and weapons sites”.
U.S. President Donald Trump said successful a station connected his Truth Social web that the United States is “inflicting precise superior retaliation, conscionable arsenic I promised, connected the murderous terrorists responsible”,and that those who onslaught Americans “wil beryllium deed harder than you person ever been deed before”.
