Centcom Reports Dozens of Anti-ISIS Operations in Syria

The United States Central Command (Centcom) announced that U.S. forces, in cooperation with their partners, have carried out approximately 80 operations on Syrian soil since July of last year in an effort to combat the terrorist group ISIS.

In a statement released Wednesday night, Centcom claimed that these operations over the past six months have resulted in the deaths of 14 ISIS members and the arrest of 119 others affiliated with the group. According to the military body, the focus of the operations has been to prevent ISIS from regrouping and launching renewed attacks.

Centcom further asserted that these efforts have disrupted ISIS’s attempts to reorganize its forces and plan attacks on both regional and global scales—a claim that has previously been made by other U.S. military agencies.

According to the same statement, Centcom reported that more than 15 sites containing ISIS-owned weapons were identified and destroyed last month in coordination with Damascus. The statement added that 130 rockets, artillery shells, and other military equipment linked to ISIS were also eliminated during this process.