{"id":56807,"date":"2026-01-11T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/u-s-launches-large-scale-strikes-against-is-targets-in-syria\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T11:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:44:04","slug":"u-s-launches-large-scale-strikes-against-is-targets-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/u-s-launches-large-scale-strikes-against-is-targets-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. launches large-scale strikes against IS targets in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Today, at approximately 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time, U.S. Central Command forces, alongside partner forces, conducted large-scale strikes against multiple ISIS targets across Syria,&#8221; the command posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>The command said these strikes were part of Operation Hawkeye Strike, which was launched and announced on December 19 in response to a deadly IS attack on U.S. and Syrian forces in Palmyra, Syria, on December 13. In the attack, a lone IS terrorist carried out an ambush, killing two U.S. soldiers and one U.S. civilian interpreter.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes are &#8220;part of our ongoing commitment to root out Islamic terrorism against our warfighters, prevent future attacks, and protect American and partner forces in the region,&#8221; U.S. Central Command said, adding that U.S. and coalition forces &#8220;remain resolute in pursuing terrorists who seek to harm the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-100447 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/webp\/1768080702198_now_brk_syria_us_isis_260110_1920x1080-qq8b46.webp\" alt=\"The U.S. Central Command said these strikes were part of Operation Hawkeye Strike, which was launched and announced on December 19 in response to a deadly IS attack on U.S. and Syrian forces in Palmyra, Syria, on December 13.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Central Command said Saturday that its forces conducted large-scale strikes against multiple Islamic State (IS) targets across Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000100448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000100448,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1768080702198_now_brk_syria_us_isis_260110_1920x1080-qq8b46.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1768080702198_now_brk_syria_us_isis_260110_1920x1080-qq8b46.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1768080702198_now_brk_syria_us_isis_260110_1920x1080-qq8b46.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1768080702198_now_brk_syria_us_isis_260110_1920x1080-qq8b46.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1768080702198_now_brk_syria_us_isis_260110_1920x1080-qq8b46.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1768080702198_now_brk_syria_us_isis_260110_1920x1080-qq8b46.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000100448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56807"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56807"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}