5 members of the terrorist organization ISIS were killed by American strikes in Syria
Result American night strikes on sites in Syria killed at least five members of the Islamic State, according to what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Saturday, a week after an attack that killed three Americans in Palmyra in central Syria.
The director of the observatory, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP that among the dead were "Commander of a cell responsible for drones" In Deir ez-Zor (east).
A Syrian security source told Agence France-Presse that The American raids targeted ISIS cells in the regions of Homs, Deir ez-Zor (east) and Raqqa (northeast).
The United States announced on Friday "More than 70 targets were struck across central Syria by Fighter aircraft, attack helicopters and artillery" In what President Donald Trump described as"A very strong retaliatory strike"About a week after an attack that killed three Americans, including two soldiers, in Palmyra in Homs Governorate in central Syria.
Washington attributed the Palmyra attack to the Islamic State, although the organization did not claim responsibility for it.
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