US Central Command mentioned 9 targets have been hit at two areas in Syria in response to an assault on US forces over the earlier 24 hours.
The US navy has carried out strikes in opposition to targets in Syria in what the US Central Command (CENTCOM) mentioned was a response to latest assaults on US forces by “Iranian-aligned targets” within the nation.
CENTCOM’s commander Normal Michael Erik Kurilla mentioned in an announcement early on Tuesday that the US navy motion despatched a “clear” message to armed teams backed by Iran and working in Syria.
“Assaults in opposition to US and coalition companions within the area won’t be tolerated,” Kurilla mentioned, describing assaults on US navy personnel in Syria over the previous 24 hours as “reckless”.
“These strikes will degrade the Iranian-backed teams’ means to plan and launch future assaults,” CENTCOM mentioned, including that 9 targets in two areas have been hit within the US assaults.
The US has about 900 soldiers based in the eastern part of Syria and a pair of,500 extra in neighbouring Iraq, whose said mission is to advise and help native forces battling to forestall a resurgence of the group generally known as ISIL (ISIS), which in 2014 seized massive swaths of each Syria and Iraq however was later defeated in fierce preventing.
No US personnel have been reported injured within the assaults that CENTCOM mentioned had been carried out over the earlier 24 hours by Iranian-backed teams.
The US navy additionally didn’t specify which armed teams have been focused in Syria or whether or not the strikes have been thought to have resulted in casualties.
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) November 11, 2024
United Kingdom-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 4 Syrian members of Iranian-backed armed teams have been killed on Monday and 10 others have been severely injured when fighter jets of the “worldwide coalition” attacked a “headquarters” within the Al Mayadeen space of japanese Syria’s Deir Az Zor countryside.
Syria state media reported earlier on Monday that Israel’s Air Drive had attacked an support convoy within the Shamsin space, positioned roughly 20km (12 miles) from the border with Lebanon, forcing the closure of Syria’s foremost north-south freeway that hyperlinks the capital, Damascus, with the northern metropolis of Aleppo.
There have been no speedy reviews of casualties and state tv didn’t present particulars in regards to the convoy that was attacked, although the realm is named a gathering level for refugees fleeing from Israeli assaults on Lebanon.
On Sunday, an Israeli air strike additionally hit a residential constructing within the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab, killing seven civilians, together with ladies and kids, the Syrian Arab Information Company (SANA) reported. Twenty others have been wounded within the assault, SANA mentioned.
Israel has carried out a whole lot of strikes in Syria lately however not often acknowledges the assaults on its neighbour, which it claims goal Iranian-supported armed teams that threaten Israel’s safety.
