U.S. military forces continued to pound Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists yesterday and today, conducting “five targeted airstrikes in Iraq and 18 airstrikes in Syria”, U.S. Central Command officials reported.
In Iraq, an airstrike near Haditha Dam destroyed an ISIL armed vehicle and an ISIL guard shack. Four airstrikes near Bayji destroyed an ISIL building, an ISIL Humvee, and an ISIL machine gun, and damaged an ISIL artillery piece.
To conduct these strikes, U.S. forces used “attack and fighter aircraft deployed to the Centcom area of operations”, according to the Department of Defense website.
In Syria, U.S. bomber and fighter aircraft deployed to the Centcom area of operations conducted 18 airstrikes near Kobani. The strikes destroyed multiple ISIL fighting positions, officials said, and successfully struck “16 ISIL-occupied buildings.”
Unconfirmed news reports suggest hundreds of ISIL fighters killed or wounded in these strike near Kobani (source: US: Hundreds of ISIL rebels killed in Kobane http://www.aljazeera.com/…/us-hundreds-isil-rebels-killed-k…).
All aircraft departed the strike areas in Iraq and Syria safely, officials added.
See raw video footage: Airstrikes on ISIL targets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trzx53-Kluw
Note: U.S. military operations in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists have been designated as Operation Inherent Resolve. The operation name applies retroactively to all U.S. military actions conducted against ISIL in Iraq and Syria since airstrikes against ISIL began Aug. 8 2014 in Iraq,