Overview
- Between Jan. 27 and Feb. 2, U.S. forces carried out five strikes using 50 precision munitions delivered by fixed-wing, rotary-wing and unmanned aircraft.
- Targets included an ISIS communications site, a critical logistics node and weapons storage facilities, according to a CENTCOM statement.
- Operation Hawkeye Strike was launched in response to a Dec. 13 ambush near Palmyra that killed two U.S. service members and an American interpreter.
- CENTCOM reports that more than 50 ISIS members have been killed or captured during nearly two months of operations.
- A Jan. 16 strike in northwest Syria killed Bilal Hasan al-Jasim, who was described as connected to the gunman behind the Dec. 13 attack.