The United States military, along with international coalition partners, conducted a series of large-scale strikes against several targets of the terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) in different regions of Syria
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced these actions on Saturday, highlighting that they are part of Operation Hawkeye Strike, initiated on December 19, 2025, by direct order of President Donald Trump.
The operation was a direct response to the serious attack carried out by ISIS on December 13, 2025, in the city of Palmyra, Syria.
In that attack, a terrorist from the group ambushed American and Syrian forces, resulting in the deaths of two U.S. soldiers and an American civilian interpreter.
According to the official CENTCOM statement, the strikes aim to eliminate Islamic terrorism that threatens American military forces, prevent further attacks, and protect both U.S. troops and partner forces in the region.
The message left by the military authorities was very clear and firm: “If you harm our fighters, we will find you and eliminate you anywhere in the world, no matter how much you try to escape justice.”
On the very first day of the operation, American and Jordanian forces struck more than 70 ISIS targets in central Syria, using more than 100 precision munitions.
In the following days, until the end of December, US troops and their allies managed to kill or capture approximately 25 terrorists from the group in Syrian territory.
It is worth remembering that, in 2014, the Islamic State managed to dominate large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, even proclaiming the creation of a “caliphate” in the areas it controlled.
Since then, several military offensives-many of them supported by the US-led coalition-have caused the group to lose almost all the territory it controlled, including its former de facto “capital,” the city of Raqqa, in Syria.
Despite these territorial setbacks, ISIS still maintains sleeper cells in the region, which continue to carry out deadly attacks in both Syria and Iraq.
This is precisely why the United States maintains troops in Syrian territory, as part of an ongoing effort to completely defeat the terrorist group.
Published in 01/11/2026 07h47
Text adapted by AI (Grok) and translated via Google API in the English version. Images from public image libraries or credits in the caption.
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