President Trump congratulated US Central Command forces Monday for conducting a profitable weekend airstrike in Syria focusing on a senior “terrorist leader.”
“US forces conducted a precision airstrike against a member of al-Qaeda in Syria this weekend,” Trump wrote on Fact Social. “The terrorist leader was working with al-Qaeda across the region.”
“Congratulations to CENTCOM Commander Gen. Michael Kurilla, and the US warfighters who dealt Justice to another Jihadi threatening America and our allies and partners,” the president added.
The airstrike befell on Saturday and resulted within the dying of a “senior finance and logistics official in the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din (HaD), an Al-Qaeda affiliate,” in accordance CENTCOM.
“The airstrike is part of CENTCOM’s ongoing commitment, along with partners in the region, to disrupt and degrade efforts by terrorists to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against civilians and military personnel from the U.S., our allies, and our partners throughout the region and beyond,” the combatant command power stated in a press release.
Kurilla stated US forces will “proceed to relentlessly pursue terrorists to be able to defend our homeland, and U.S., allied, and accomplice personnel within the area.“
The operation marked no less than the fifth airstrike carried out or enabled by CENTCOM in opposition to ISIS and Hurras al Din since Trump took workplace.
The strikes in opposition to ISIS have taken place in Iraq, carried out by Iraqi forces, whereas the operations in opposition to Hurras al Din have all been in neighboring Syria.
US Africa Command forces have individually carried out no less than two airstrikes within the final month focusing on ISIS-Somalia terrorists within the jap African nation.
Hurras al-Din, shaped in 2018 after the Nusrah Entrance terror group broke off from al Qaeda, operates primarily in Syria’s Idlib Province and is believed to have as many as 2,500 members, in keeping with the Nationwide Counterterrorism Middle.
The group “advocates attacks against the West and Israel to expel foreign influence from Muslim lands, and it seeks to set the conditions necessary to form a new caliphate across the Levant and the broader Middle East” and will “pose a threat to US and other Western interests outside of Syria” in keeping with the NCC.
