“US and Coalition military forces continued to attack ISIL [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant] terrorists in Syria, using attack, fighter, bomber, and remotely piloted aircraft to conduct 18 airstrikes,” the statement said. “Separately, US and Coalition military forces conducted seven airstrikes in Iraq.”
In Syria, 18 airstrikes took out ten IS units, two IS vehicles, an IS bunker, and an IS fighting position near Al Hasakah; an IS crude oil collection point near Dayr az Zawr; and five IS tactical units and five IS fighting positions near Kobani, the statement said.
The airstrikes were a part of Operation Inherent Resolve, whose mission is to eliminate the IS and the threat the group poses in Iraq, Syria as well as the rest of the Middle East and the world, according to the statement.
