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U.S. and allied forces carried retired "large-scale" strikes against the Islamic State jihadist radical successful Syria connected Saturday (January 10, 2026), the U.S. subject said, the latest effect to an onslaught past period that killed 3 Americans.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees American subject forces successful the region, said aggregate strikes "targeted ISIS passim Syria," utilizing an acronym for the jihadist group.
CENTCOM's station connected X did not springiness specifics connected wherever they took place.
Grainy aerial video accompanying the station showed respective abstracted explosions, seemingly successful agrarian areas.
The strikes were portion of Operation Hawkeye Strike, which was launched "in nonstop effect to the deadly ISIS onslaught connected U.S. and Syrian forces successful Palmyra," CENTCOM said.
Jordan's aerial unit besides carried retired targeted aerial strikes against IS arsenic portion of the operation, its subject said connected Sunday (January 11).
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It said successful a connection it struck "a fig of targets... successful respective areas wrong Syria territory".
Two U.S. soldiers and a U.S. civilian interpreter were killed connected December 13 aft a lone gunman — whom Washington described arsenic an IS militant — ambushed them successful Palmyra, location to UNESCO-listed past ruins and erstwhile controlled by the jihadist group.
Syria's interior Ministry aboriginal said the gunman was a subordinate of the information forces who had been acceptable to beryllium fired for extremism.
"We volition ne'er forget, and ne'er relent," U;S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday successful a station connected X, replying to the CENTCOM statement.
The United States and Jordan carried retired a circular of strikes past period successful effect to the Palmyra attack, with CENTCOM saying astatine the clip that "more than 70 targets" had been hit.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a warfare monitor, aboriginal reported those strikes killed astatine slightest 5 IS members, including a compartment leader.
On January 3, Britain and France announced associated strikes targeting an underground installation they said IS had apt utilized to store weapons.
The U.S. unit targeted successful Palmyra were supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the planetary effort to combat IS, which seized swaths of Syrian and Iraqi territory successful 2014.
The jihadists were yet defeated by section crushed forces backed by planetary aerial strikes and different support, but IS inactive has a beingness successful Syria, particularly successful the country's immense desert.
U.S. President Donald Trump has agelong been skeptical of Washington's beingness successful Syria, ordering the withdrawal of troops during his archetypal word but yet leaving American forces successful the country.
The Pentagon announced successful April that the United States would halve the fig of U.S. unit successful Syria successful the pursuing months, portion U.S. envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said successful June that Washington would yet trim its bases successful the state to one.
