Together with its five Arab allies, the US has launched the first strikes against ISIS insurgents in Syria. According to the Pentagon, drones, warplanes and Tomahawk missiles were used to assault several areas including Islamic State stranglehold Raqqa.
Syrian activists said that the US drones that struck Raqqa have killed at least seventy ISIS militants in Syria. Syrian authorities said that the US government gave no warning of timing of attacks on specific targets though they were told in advance. The Islamic state insurgents control enormous strips of Syria and Iraq.
The US government has previously launched about 190 airstrikes in Iraq since August. However, the US drones that struck parts of Syria on Monday extended the campaign against the ferocious beasts of war across the border into Syria.
State media reported that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad said he supports any transnational efforts to combat terrorism in Syria. Pentagon spokesperson Rear Admiral John Kirby confirmed the mission. He stated that the US military and its ally nation forces had commenced military action as the drone strikes in Syria.
The United States Central Command said that Sunni Arab nations Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have partaken and buoyed the US drone strikes in Syria. It was conveyed that a total of 14 strikes wrecked or shattered ISIS drill compounds, command and control amenities, vehicles and storage sites.
It was also reported that the US military will continue to conduct airstrikes using its warplanes, drones and Tomahawk missiles against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
America's utmost-ranking liveried military official US General Martin Dempsey said that the strikes were piloted to show ISIS insurgents that they had no hideout. He added that the US military had attained its goal.
Independently, US Central Command said that the US military forces also assaulted a network of Al-Qaeda veterans named Khorasan who had built a refuge west of Aleppo and were maneuvering looming attacks against the West.
Authorities said that the adherents of the enigmatic group are believed to work together with al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front using its drill bases and resources.
The ongoing US drone strikes mark a foremost transference in maneuvers against ISIS targets. As the US forces castoff its warplanes, drones and Tomahawk missiles, they now magnify the combat across the border into the group's heartland in Syria.
Arab nations' participation on the recent US strikes in Syria extents the accountability to some degree away from the just the US alone. The US-led assaults will undeniably infuriate the terrorist group. It has no operational military elucidations to US air power after they used their warplanes, Tomahawk missiles and drones in striking Syria. But those Arab allies that buoyed and took part in the combat will possibly face retaliations from the terrorist group ISIS.
