The U.S. military said Sunday that it killed 37 Islamist militants in two airstrikes this month in Syria, and that the dead included many senior leaders of the Islamic State and an al Qaeda affiliate called Hurras al-Din based in Syria. . The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement that the attacks took place on September 16 and 24, adding that there was no indication that civilians had been injured.
They also announced an attack earlier this month, on September 16, where they carried out a “large-scale airstrike” against an IS training camp in an undisclosed remote location in central Syria. That attack killed 28 militants, including “at least four Syrian leaders.”
“The airstrike will disrupt ISIS’s ability to conduct operations against US interests, as well as our allies and partners,” the statement read.
There are about 900 US forces in Syria, along with an undisclosed number of contractors, mostly trying to prevent any return of the extremist group IS, which swept through Iraq and Syria in 2014, taking control of large swaths of territory.
U.S. forces advise and assist their key allies in northeastern Syria, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, located not far from strategic areas where Iranian-backed militant groups are present, including a key border crossing with Iraq.
(With contributions from the agency)
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