U.S. and coalition military forces hit ISIS terrorists with 25 airstrikes Saturday on the 562nd day of the air campaign in Syria and Iraq.
The Defense Department reported the following strikes in Operation Inherent Resolve against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists, better known as simply ISIS:
Airstrikes in Syria
Attack, ground-attack, fighter, and remotely piloted aircraft conducted nine airstrikes in Syria:
- Near Hasakah, four strikes struck three separate ISIS tactical units and destroyed an ISIS fighting position.
- Near Ayn Isa, a strike destroyed an ISIS armored front-end loader.
- Near Dayr Az Zawr, a strike struck an ISIS main gas and oil separation plant.
- Near Manbij, three strikes struck an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed an ISIS anti-air artillery piece and three ISIS fighting positions.
Airstrikes in Iraq
Fighter, attack, ground-attack, and remotely piloted aircraft conducted 16 airstrikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of the Iraqi government:
- Near Baghdadi, a strike destroyed an ISIS weapons cache and three ISIS rocket systems.
- Near Huwayjah, a strike struck an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed an ISIS vehicle.
- Near Albu Hayat, a strike struck an ISIS tactical unit.
- Near Fallujah, a strike destroyed an ISIS anti-air artillery piece.
- Near Habbaniyah, a strike struck an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL fighting position.
- Near Hit, a strike destroyed an ISIS tunnel entrance.
- Near Mosul, four strikes struck two separate ISIS tactical units and destroyed four ISIS fighting positions, four ISIS assembly areas, an ISIS petroleum site, and two ISIS command and control nodes.
- Near Qayyarah, a strike destroyed four ISIS fighting positions.
- Near Ramadi, three strikes struck three separate ISIS tactical units and destroyed an ISIS anti-air artillery piece, an ISIS vehicle, an ISIS fighting position, an ISIS vehicle bomb making facility, five ISIS staging areas, and an ISIS bed-down location.
- Near Tal Afar, two strikes struck an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed an ISIS tunnel system.
Under the military’s definition, a single airstrike can range from one drone firing one missile to an attack by multiple aircraft releasing numerous weapons on a terrorist compound.
Coalition nations conducting airstrikes in cooperation with the United States include Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Jordan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
