The Syrian government has constantly expressed its opposition to the US role in Syria, and demanded that US forces withdraw. The raids, it said, were in response to attacks allegedly launched by Iranian-backed fighters targeting al-Tanf. The US has previously carried out attacks targeting what it says were infrastructure facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Central Command called him one of the top five ISIS leaders worldwide. Roughly 900 US troops remain at al-Tanf and other bases in the Kurdish-controlled northeast as part of the coalition’s continuing campaign against ISIL remnants. The top leader of ISIS in Syria, al-Agal was killed Tuesday via drone strike outside Jindayris, Syria, in an operation that targeted two senior Islamic State officials, U.S. admission that a drone strike that killed 10 civilians was a tragic mistake did nothing to ease the sense of vulnerability among surviving family members and co-workers living under. It retained the facility even after the fighters’ last Syrian outpost was overrun by Kurdish-led forces in March 2019. Since 2007, the United States has targeted alleged fighters from three main terror networks operating in Somalia: Al Qaeda, Al Shabaab and ISIS. The coalition set up the base in 2016 to train Syrian fighters for the war against ISIL. An ISIS with a weakened and attenuated territorial sanctuary will be handicapped in its capacity to plan a complex. Sleeper cells of the armed ISIL (ISIS) group are also active in the area. Iran is a key ally of the Syrian government and the coalition has disrupted similar attacks on al-Tanf in the past. Iran-backed forces are deployed in close proximity to al-Tanf, a desert garrison on the strategically important Baghdad-Damascus highway, near the border with Iraq and Jordan.

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