US airstrikes target multiple militant camps in Syria

BEIRUT — 

A bid of U.S. airstrikes targeted respective camps tally by the Islamic State radical successful Syria successful an cognition the U.S. subject said volition disrupt the extremists from conducting attacks successful the portion and beyond.

The U.S. Central Command said the airstrikes were conducted Friday, without specifying successful which parts of Syria. About 900 U.S. troops person been deployed successful eastbound Syria alongside the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces that were instrumental successful the combat against IS militants.

Despite their defeat, attacks by IS sleeper cells successful Iraq and Syria person been connected the emergence implicit the past years, with scores of radical killed oregon wounded.

The Islamic State radical seized territory astatine the tallness of its powerfulness and declared a caliphate successful ample parts of Iraq and Syria successful 2014 but was defeated successful Iraq successful 2017. In March 2019, the extremists mislaid the past sliver of onshore they erstwhile controlled successful eastbound Syria.

The U.S. subject said the strikes volition disrupt the quality of the Islamic State radical to plan, signifier and behaviour attacks against the United States, its allies and partners, arsenic good arsenic civilians passim the portion and beyond.

It said conflict harm assessments were underway and determination were nary civilian casualties.

Last month, Iraq’s subject said that Iraqi forces and American troops killed a elder IS commandant who was wanted by the United States, arsenic good arsenic respective different salient militants.

At its peak, the radical ruled an country fractional the size of the United Kingdom wherever it enforced its utmost mentation of Islam, which included attacks connected spiritual number groups and harsh punishment of Muslims deemed to beryllium apostates.