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On 9 July, US Central Command announced that a U.S. MQ-9 drone which had been harassed by Russian aircraft for almost two hours had on 7 July killed an ISIS leader called Usamah al-Muhajir, [152] who had been riding his motorcycle on the road linking al-Bab with Bizaah. [153]
US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021) Part of the War against the Islamic State (Operation Inherent Resolve), the War in Iraq (2013–2017), Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present), and the War on terror
During the fighting, militants also directed RPG fire at a U.S. aircraft; a bullet grazed the leg of the pilot. [19] Later, it was reported the hostages had been relocated 24 hours before the attempted rescue. [1] It remained unclear whether the operation failed due to incorrect intelligence or if IS forces had been alerted in advance of the ...
The 15 ISIS operatives who were killed were “armed with numerous weapons, grenades, and explosive ‘suicide’ belts,” US Central Command said in a statement Friday. The Iraqi military ...
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The U.S.-Iraq joint military operation in Western Iraq killed four ISIS leaders last month, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed in a statement on Friday. The partnered raid, which took ...
U.S. and allies supplying weapons and advisers to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces; U.S.-backed rebel training program 2014-2016 [47] U.S.-led occasional strikes against the Syrian government; U.S. Marines and Special Operation forces deployed in Syria (about 2,000, as of early Dec 2017) [48] Planned withdrawal of most U.S. troops in ...
The Eastern Syria insurgency is an armed insurgency being waged by remnants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and both pro and anti-Syrian government Arab nationalist insurgents, against the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), its military (the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)), and their allies in the US-led Combined Joint Task Force – Operation ...