Washington.- The U.S. Army announced this Friday that it has launched a “large-scale attack” against targets of the Islamic State (IS) in Syria in retaliation for the ambush that the group perpetrated last week and that ended the lives of two soldiers and an interpreter, all of them Americans, in the Syrian province of Homs.
“U.S. forces have launched a large-scale attack on ISIS infrastructure and weapons depots in Syria. This massive attack comes after the attack against U.S. forces and their allies in Syria on December 13,” U.S. Central Command said in a brief statement.
A Response to the Islamic State, Not a War in Syria
Shortly after that text was published, the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, announced the attack on social media and explained that the campaign was named Operation Hawk Eye Attack.
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“This is not the beginning of a war, it’s a declaration of revenge,” explains Hegseth.
«As we said immediately after the brutal attack (of December 13), if they attack Americans, anywhere in the world, they will spend the rest of their short and anguished lives knowing that the United States will pursue them, find them, and eliminate them without mercy», adds the Secretary of War.
According to an anonymous U.S. official cited by The New York Times, dozens of alleged Islamic State emplacements in various locations in central Syria were attacked with fighter jets, attack helicopters, and artillery salvos, and the bombings are expected to last several hours.
The two soldiers and the translator attacked last Saturday by a single shooter near the Syrian city of Palmyra were the first Americans to die in the country since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime last year.
