Shafaq News - Damascus
The US-led Global Coalition carried out a series of airstrikes targeting positions and bases belonging to ISIS across desert areas in the Syrian provinces of Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa, and Homs, Shafaq News correspondent reported on Friday.
The strikes were accompanied by successive explosions heard in both western and eastern rural areas of Deir ez-Zor, as well as in the town of Maadan in the Raqqa countryside.
The correspondent added that four missiles struck areas in the Deir ez-Zor desert, launched from a Global Coalition base near the city of al-Shaddadi in southern Hasakah province.
Separately, The New York Times quoted a US official as saying that the air operation in Syria was broad in scope and could continue for several hours.
The strikes come days after US forces were targeted in an ambush in the city of Palmyra (Tadmur) in central Syria, an incident that resulted in the deaths of three US nationals, including two soldiers and a civilian interpreter.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, which targeted a delegation from the Global Coalition and Syrian internal security forces.
Following the incident, US President Donald Trump vowed to respond, while his special envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, described the attack as a “cowardly terrorist ambush,” reaffirming Washington’s commitment to defeating terrorism in coordination with its Syrian partners.
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