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US says 15 more air strikes launched against Islamic State
The United States and its coalition partners launched two air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria and 13 strikes against targets in Iraq on Sunday and Monday, according to the U.S. military.
In Syria, fighter planes and drones destroyed multiple oil dumps near Dayr az Zawr and struck “a large tactical unit” near Kobani, according to the Combined Joint Task Force, which is leading the air operations.
In Iraq, coalition forces launched 13 air strikes near Al Asad, Al Qaim, Bayji, Fallujah, Haditha, Mosul, Rawah and Tal Afar, the Combined Joint Task Force said. Tactical units, buildings and vehicles were targeted.
All aircraft returned from their missions safely, the military said.
7 Comments on "US says 15 more air strikes launched against Islamic State"
Plantagenet on Mon, 16th Feb 2015 11:54 am
I wonder how long it will take to bomb the Sunni populations of Iraq and Syria into submission. We’ve been bombing them for six months now—will another six months bring a US victory?
bobinget on Mon, 16th Feb 2015 11:56 am
Egypt says it has bombed Islamic State targets in Libya, hours after the militants released video of apparent beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians.
State TV said the dawn strikes had targeted camps, training sites and weapons storage areas. A second wave of strikes was reported hours later.
Libyan officials said Egypt hit targets in the militant-held city of Derna.
The strikes came amid widespread condemnation of the killings. The US and UN described them as “cowardly”.
A video emerged on Sunday showing militants forcing a group of men to the ground and decapitating them.
The kidnapped Egyptian workers, all Coptic Christians, were seized in separate incidents in December and January from the coastal town of Sirte in eastern Libya, under the control of Islamist groups. BBC
Posted note:
Only when one side or the other bombs oil infrastructure do you know things are desperate.
“In Syria, fighter planes and drones destroyed Multiple Oil Dumps near Dayr az Zawr and struck “a large tactical unit” near Kobani, according to the Combined Joint Task Force”.
BBC
(IOW’s ‘Allied Forces” lost hope of occupying)
Plantagenet on Mon, 16th Feb 2015 12:23 pm
How did ISIS spread to Libya at the same time that we are bombing them in Iraq and Syria?
bobinget on Mon, 16th Feb 2015 12:50 pm
Egypt’s Disproportionate Over Reaction will be short lived. Not unlike Jordan’s spate of bombing raids, none of ‘our’ Mideast Allies, including Israel,
can sustain prolonged warfare. Egypt, Jordan,
Israel most of all, Turkey, are subject to domestic, anti government violence.
Here’s some back and foreground on oil smuggling
and IS trafficking through Turkey’s porous 500 mile border.
http://middleeastnewsservice.com/2015/02/14/islamic-state-and-turkeys-responsabilities-turkey-as-isis-retaliation-door-in-syria-and-iraq/
Plantagenet on Mon, 16th Feb 2015 1:07 pm
So if the US air strikes in Iraq and Syria are actually defeating ISIS, then how can ISIS be spreading to Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, etc.?
Not to mention Paris and Copenhagen.
Makati1 on Mon, 16th Feb 2015 6:52 pm
bobinget, beheadings are OK if Saudi Arabia does it, but not any “terrorist” organization. Not that they are anywhere close to the number of families the Us has ‘Hellfired’ to eternity in the Me over the last 15 years at a cost of $7,000,000,000,000.00+++
GregT on Mon, 16th Feb 2015 7:01 pm
“The strikes came amid widespread condemnation of the killings. The US and UN described them as “cowardly”.
But of course indiscriminately bombing cities, towns, and villages with drones is heroic.