CENTCOM says an attack in northwest Syria on Friday killed one person linked to a December attack that killed US troops and an interpreter.
Published on January 17, 2026
The US says an airstrike in northwestern Syria has killed an al-Qaeda-linked leader linked to an ISIS member. Assault US military last month.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday that an airstrike a day earlier killed Bilal Hassan al-Jassim, who was “directly linked to ISIS gunmen who killed and wounded American and Syrian personnel” in mid-December.
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“There is no safe place for those who attack, plot, or inspire attacks on American citizens and our warfighters. We will find you,” CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper said in a statement.
On December 13, two US soldiers and a military interpreter were killed in an ISIL attack in the Syrian city of Palmyra.
Since then, America has A series of large-scale strikes In Syria what they say is a response to a deadly attack on US forces.
On Saturday, CENTCOM said the US military and its partners had struck more than 100 ISIL “infrastructure and weapons” sites, in retaliation for the US military launching the operation in December.
“Additionally, the US and partners The army has taken over “Over 300 ISIS operatives and over 20 killed in Syria over the past year,” it said.
US President Donald Trump had promised significant damages to those responsible for the deadly attack on the US military.
“I can tell you, in Syria, whoever did this will suffer a lot,” Trump said on Dec. 13.