{"id":888582,"date":"2026-01-28T23:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/us-announces-large-scale-strikes-against-is-in-syria\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:23:16","slug":"us-announces-large-scale-strikes-against-is-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/us-announces-large-scale-strikes-against-is-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"US announces \u2018large-scale\u2019 strikes against IS in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>US and allied forces carried out \u201clarge-scale\u201d strikes against the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria\u00a0on Saturday, the US military said, in the latest response to an attack last month that left three Americans dead.<\/p>\n<p>Washington said a lone gunman from the militant group carried out the December 13 attack in Palmyra \u2014 home to UNESCO-listed ancient ruins and once controlled by jihadist fighters \u2014 that killed two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe strikes today targeted ISIS throughout Syria\u201d and were part of Operation Hawkeye Strike, which was launched \u201cin direct response to the deadly ISIS attack on US and Syrian forces in Palmyra,\u201d US Central Command said in a statement on X, using an acronym for the jihadist group.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and Jordan carried out a previous round of strikes as part of the same operation last month, hitting dozens of Islamic State group targets.<\/p>\n<p>The Palmyra attack was the first such incident since the overthrow of Syria\u2019s longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The US personnel who were targeted were supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the international effort to combat IS, which seized swaths of Syrian and Iraqi territory in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The jihadists were ultimately defeated by local ground forces backed by international air strikes and other support, but IS still has a presence in Syria, especially in the country\u2019s vast desert.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has long been skeptical of Washington\u2019s presence in Syria, ordering the withdrawal of troops during his first term but ultimately leaving American forces in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon announced in April that the United States would halve the number of US personnel in Syria in the following months, while US envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said in June that Washington would eventually reduce its bases in the country to one.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Becki Motsinger<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/01\/us-announces-large-scale-strikes-against-is-in-syria\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US and allied forces carried out \u201clarge-scale\u201d strikes against the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria\u00a0on Saturday, the US military said, in the latest response to an attack last month that left three Americans dead. Washington said a lone gunman from the militant group carried out the December 13 attack in Palmyra \u2014 home to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":888583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[551,35953],"tags":[6410,142214],"class_list":{"0":"post-888582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-announces","8":"category-large-scale","9":"tag-announces","10":"tag-large-scale"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}