US airstrikes in Syria kill 37 ISIS and Hurras al-Din operatives
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The news: The US military said it killed 37 militants in two separate airstrikes in Syria this month including one last Tuesday, targeting ISIS and the al-Qaeda-affiliated Hurras al-Din group.
The numbers: A strike on 16 September hit a “remote ISIS training camp” in central Syria, killing 28 militants, including four senior leaders, and a second attack on 24 September in northwestern Syria killed nine militants, including Marwan Bassam ‘Abd-al-Ra’uf, a senior Hurras al-Din leader overseeing military operations.
The context: It was the second US strike against the senior leadership of Hurras al-Din, which emerged in Syria in 2018, in recent months.
According to Qatar-based Al Jazeera, around 900 US troops remain in Syria with an unknown number of contractors, primarily to prevent an ISIS resurgence.
What they said: “The airstrike will disrupt ISIS' capability to conduct operations against U.S. interests, as well as our allies and partners,” the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on Sunday, referring to the 16 September strike.
The sources: US Central Command statement , Al Jazeera
