U.S. strikes dozens of sites in Syria in retaliation for troops’ deathshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/19/us-strikes-syria/The U.S. military on Friday night launched a series of strikes against dozens of sites in central Syria, U.S. officials said, following an attack last weekend that killed two U.S. soldiers and a civilian interpreter.The strikes were ongoing and expected to target Islamic State infrastructure and weapons storage locations, said one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the operation. A-10 attack jets, F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, and Apache helicopters were involved along with rocket artillery fired by U.S. forces in the region, the official said.Friday’s assault followed a Dec. 13 ambush at a military base in the city of Palmyra that killed two members of the Iowa National Guard — Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29 — and Ayad Mansoor Sakat, 54, an Iraq-born interpreter who lived in Michigan. President Donald Trump vowed after their deaths to retaliate.No one has taken responsibility for the attack, but U.S. officials have said the Islamic State is likely to blame.
In the last week, U.S. troops had joined with regional partner forces to carry out 10 operations across Iraq and Syria that resulted in the death or detention of 23 suspected Islamic State members, the U.S. official said. U.S. forces often use intelligence gathered in such operations to inform future military strikes.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, writing on social media, said Friday’s assault — which he dubbed Operation Hawkeye Strike — was “in direct response to the attack” last weekend that claimed the lives of American personnel.“This is not the beginning of the war — it is a declaration of vengeance,” Hegseth said. “The United States of America, under President Trump’s leadership, will never hesitate and never relent to defend our people.”Hegseth added that anyone who targets Americans “will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you.”
>>1467903The president of peace btw
>>1467903>The strikes were ongoing and expected to target Islamic State infrastructure and weapons storage locationsI thought Israel was already doing that
>>1467904>“This is not the beginning of the war — it is a declaration of vengeance,”>“Will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you.”God, he sounds like such a fucking dweeb.
>>1467915The world shall fear conservatives again. Like what happened in the 30s and 40s, they must be taught what happens when you mess with good conservative men!
>>1467958He's literally a roleplayer at this point. It's kinda embarrassing he was ever IN the military, let alone fucking lead it. No wonder his alcoholic ass never made it past major.
>>1467959>The world shall fear conservatives againThey will and you'll endure a decade of not getting elected.
>>1467915More like the president of pieces IYOU!!!
>>1467958He sounds like someone with a Deus Vult tattoo.
>>1467958He sounds like he couldn't be assed to even use his own words and AI generated it instead. Typical of Jews and their worshipers, fake people without an ounce of integrity.
>>1468004Hegseth is /yourguy/, he's literally covered in Christian fundamentalist tattoos. You just don't like seeing what your own ideology looks like in practice, because its a major factor in why everything is going to shit
>>1467958tfw you made a cable news understudy the Secretary of Defense because you saw him do a number on the TV and thought he was a pretty smart guy.
>>1468030Explain what part of my reply made you think I'm Christian, or right wing.
>>1468049Pretty sure the >Typical of Jews and their worshipers, fake people without an ounce of integrity.part was a dead giveaway. People on the left hate Israel because its a genocidal fascist state founded by literal nazi collaborators like the Lehi terrorists, not because the fascists in question are Jewish. You /pol/yps are ironically the most spiritually israeli people on the planet outside of the israelis themselves
>>1467903>>1467904anything to distract from his child molestation scandal
>>1467961He's talking about the rise of fascism given fascism is a conservative ideology.
