US-led coalition strikes Daesh targets in Syria
The US-led combined joint task force fighting Daesh
announced Tuesday that it continued airstrikes and coordinated attacks in
Syria, days after President Donald Trump's decision to begin the withdrawal of
US troops in the country, the CNN reported.
Operation Inherent Resolve continued supporting its partner
forces with "precision air strikes and coordinated fires to make further
progress" against Daesh in Syria, the coalition said in a statement.
The coalition said the coordinated attacks, launched
from December 16-22, "severely degraded" the terrorist group's
logistics facilities and staging areas and "removed several hundred Daesh
fighters from the battlefield."
The airstrikes also targeted Daesh financial centers
in eastern Syria, delivering a "significant blow" to its ability to
finance terrorist activities, the coalition said.
"Daesh presents a very real threat to the
long-term stability in this region and our mission remains the same, the
enduring defeat of ISIS," UK Maj. Gen. Christopher Ghika, the deputy
commander of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, said in a
statement Tuesday.
The statement comes after Trump's declaration last
week that Daesh has been defeated and his announcement that the US would begin
the "full" and "rapid" withdrawal of its roughly 2,000
troops in Syria.
Trump's decision led in part to the resignation of
his Defense Secretary James Mattis and his top diplomat for the global
coalition to counter Daesh.
