Pentagon: US, allies conduct 25 airstrikes in Iraq, 2 in Syria
The US-led coalition has conducted 27 airstrikes against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group’s positions in Syria and Iraq, the Pentagon says.
According to a Sunday statement by the Combined Joint Task Force which oversees the airstrikes, coalition aircraft carried out 25 attacks in Iraq and only 2 in Syria.
The attacks in Iraq were carried out near 9 cities, 6 of them near Ramadi, the provincial capital west of Baghdad, which was freed in December, almost one year after it fell into the hands of Daesh in 2014.
The city’s liberation marked one of the most significant victories for Iraq’s armed forces since Daesh Takfiris seized swathes of the Iraqi land in June 2014.
Near Mosul, two separate tactical units and other purported Daesh targets were hit in 12 raids.
In Syria, however, the US-led coalition conducted an airstrike near al-Hawl and another one near al-Hasakah.
The significant drop in US-led airstrikes in Syria is attributable to Russia’s deployment of sophisticated anti-aircraft systems, as some US military officials have admitted.
Russia deployed its S-400 missile system to the Syrian city of Latakia in the wake of Turkey’s shooting down of its warplane over the country in November.
The S-400 has a range of about 400 kilometers and can destroy tactical and strategic aircraft as well as ballistic and cruise missiles.
Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman said in December that advanced Russian air defense systems had complicated the situation for the US-led coalition over the skies in Syria.
Russia has been conducting airstrikes on Daesh positions at the request of the Syrian government since September last year.
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