Tuesday, September 23, 2014

U.S. begins airstrikes against ISIS/ISIL in Syria

Tomahawk missiles launched from the sea initiated the strike, followed by bombers and fighters....
 
The airstrikes Tuesday took place in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, a U.S. official told CNN. It’s the first strikes against the terror group inside the country since President Barack Obama’s announcement this month that he was prepared to expand the American efforts beyond targets in Iraq.


All foreign partners participating in the strikes with the United States are Arab countries, a senior U.S. military official told CNN. Those nations include Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.

Diplomatic sources told CNN that Qatar was also involved, though it was not clear whether Qatar actually conducted airstrikes itself.

The U.S. and “partner nation forces” began striking ISIS targets using fighters, bombers and Tomahawk missiles, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said, though he didn’t specify a geographic location.
Citing the ongoing operations, Kirby said the Pentagon would not provide additional details immediately. But a U.S. military official said the strikes are meant to target the ability of ISIS to command and control, resupply and train.

Tomahawk missiles launched from the sea initiated the strike, followed by bombers and fighters.
mme.am.com
22/9/14
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  1. U.S. launches strikes on ISIS targets in Syria....

    The United States, with the aid of its coalition allies, has begun air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targets in Syria, U.S. officials told Reuters news agency.

    Using a mix of manned aircraft - fighter jets and bombers - plus Tomahawk cruise missiles, the strikes were part of the expanded military campaign that President Barack Obama authorized nearly two weeks ago in order to disrupt and destroy ISIS militants.

    U.S. officials said the airstrikes began around 0030 GMT, and were conducted by the U.S. and other nations. The first wave of strikes finished about 90 minutes later, but the operation was expected to continue for several more hours, according to one U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly by name about an ongoing mission.

    Since the military operation was ongoing, no more details could be provided yet, Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon’s press secretary, told reporters on Tuesday.

    He did not name the partner nations participating in the operation; however U.S. officials have said the U.S. would not launch this mission alone and anti-ISIS coalition nations had been expected to participate.

    Some of the airstrikes were against ISIS targets in Raqqa, regarded as the militant group’s stronghold.....................................................http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/09/23/U-S-strikes-ISIS-targets-in-Syria-.html

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  2. The United States and allied nations have launched their first air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, the Pentagon has said....

    Spokesman Rear Adm John Kirby said a mix of fighter and bomber jets and Tomahawk missiles was used in the attack.

    The strikes were expected as part of President Barack Obama's pledge to "degrade and destroy" IS, which has claimed control of portions of a vast area between Syria and Iraq.

    The United States has already undertaken 190 air strikes in Iraq since August.

    On Monday, Rear Adm Kirby confirmed "U.S. military and partner nation forces" were undertaking military action in Syria but did not give details.

    "Given that these operations are ongoing, we are not in a position to provide additional details at this time," he said in a statement.
    http://www.china.org.cn/world/2014-09/23/content_33586238.htm

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  3. Los ataques aéreos contra los objetivos del Estado Islámico están actualmente en curso en Siria, de acuerdo con un funcionario del Pentágono. Los ataques sobre blancos en el país árabe implican, según estos informes, una mezcla de misiles de combate, bombarderos y ataque a tierra con misiles Tomahawk.........

    "Puedo confirmar que las fuerzas militares nacionales y sus socios están llevando a cabo una acción militar contra terroristas del EI en Siria", dijo el secretario de prensa del Pentágono, el contraalmirante John Kirby, citado por ABC.

    "La decisión de llevar a cabo estos ataques se tomó el día de hoy por el comandante del Comando Central de Estados Unidos en virtud de la autorización que le concedió el comandante jefe. Vamos a proporcionar más detalles más adelante cuando sea operacionalmente apropiado", agregó..............Texto completo en: http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/view/141102-eeuu-ataque-siria-estado-islamico?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=actualidad

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  4. USA starten Luftangriffe gegen IS in Syrien....

    Wie ein Pentagonsprecher mitteilte, haben die USA gemeinsam mit Partner-Ländern am Montag den Angriff gegen IS (Islamischer Staat) begonnen. Um welche Partner es sich handelt, wollte man nicht mitteilen.

    23.09.2014 | 06:07 | (DiePresse.com)

    Das US-Militär und die Streitkräfte von Partnerländern haben die IS mit Kampfjets, Bombern und Tomahawk-Marschflugkörpern angegriffen, teilte Pentagonsprecher John Kirby am Montag mit. Um welche Partner-Länder es sich handelt, wurde nicht gesagt.

    US-Medienberichten zufolge handelt es sich bei den Verbündeten um arabische Staaten. Nach Informationen der "Washington Post" beteiligen sich Saudi-Arabien, Jordanien, die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate und Bahrain an dem Einsatz. Diese seien "volle Teilnehmer", zitierte das Blatt einen namentlich nicht genannten Angehörigen des Militärs. Zuletzt hatte US-Außenminister John Kerry versucht, Staaten im arabischen Raum für Angriffe gegen IS an Seite der USA zu gewinnen.
    Zentraler IS-Stützpunkt im Visier der USA

    Die Luftangriffe konzentrieren sich auf IS-Stellungen in der nordsyrischen Provinz al-Raqqa, wo die radikalsunnitischen Extremisten einen ihrer zentralen Stützpunkte haben. Weitere Ziele seien entlang der syrisch-irakischen Grenze attackiert worden.

    Die Entscheidung für die Angriffe sei von US-Präsident Barack Obama als Oberbefehlshaber der Streitkräfte gekommen. Damit weiten die USA ihre Offensive gegen den IS erheblich aus. Obama hatte seinen Entschluss, die Anfang August begonnenen Luftangriffe im Irak auf das benachbarte Syrien auszuweiten, vor zwei Wochen in einer Rede an die Nation verkündet......................http://diepresse.com/home/politik/aussenpolitik/3873994/USA-starten-Luftangriffe-gegen-IS-in-Syrien?from=rss
    23/9/14

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  5. Syrian opposition says air strikes will help fight against Assad...

    Syria's Western-backed National Coalition opposition group welcomed air strikes by the United States and Gulf Arab allies on Islamic State strongholds in Syria on Tuesday, saying they would strengthen its struggle against President Bashar al-Assad.

    "This will make us stronger in the fight against Assad... The campaign should continue until the Islamic State is completely eradicated from Syrian lands," Monzer Akbik, special envoy to the president of the coalition, told Reuters. REUTERS
    http://www.todayonline.com/world/syrian-opposition-says-air-strikes-will-help-fight-against-assad

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  6. The Syrian army has confirmed the downing of a Syrian war jet by Israeli army over the Israeli- occupied Golan Heights earlier on Tuesday, according to the official SANA news agency....

    Media reports cited Israeli sources as confirming that the Israeli forces shot down a Syrian war jet over the Golan Heights using a patriot missile.

    Meanwhile, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV said the jet's crew members have survived.

    Local media said the Syrian troops are engaged in battles against the Nusra Front in the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan Heights in al-Qunaitera province.

    Syria has for long accused Israel of aiding the radical militants in al-Qunaitera particularly after the Israeli authorities have recently provided medical treatment to injured rebels.
    http://www.china.org.cn/world/2014-09/23/content_33590718.htm
    23/9/14

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  7. US strikes in Syria kill up to 120 militants - monitor...

    The dead included more than 70 members of the Islamic State (IS) group in the north and east of Syria, as well as 50 al-Qaeda militants, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

    Eight civilians, among them three children, were killed in US strikes in the west of northern Aleppo province, the Observatory said..................http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0923/645620-syria/

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  8. Pentagon: F-22s used in combat for first time in Syria...

    This week’s strike against Islamic State militants in Syria by the United States marked the first time that the Pentagon has deployed its F-22 Raptor jets into combat, the Defense Department acknowledged on Tuesday.

    Lt. Gen. William Mayville, the director of ops for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged during a Department of Defense briefing on Tuesday morning that the strikes launched by the US hours earlier were the first ever to involve F-22s — a fifth-generation aircraft that’s capable of dropping precisions bombs on targets from 15 miles away.

    “What we were looking at were the effects we wanted to see on the target areas and what platforms in the region would be best suited to do that,” Mayville told reporters at the Pentagon. “We had a large menu of targets to strike from and we chose from there. Really it’s less the platform then the effects we seek.” .....................http://rt.com/usa/189984-pentagon-f22-combat-first-syria/

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  9. Britain, Belgium and Denmark lined up Friday behind the United States in its fight against the Islamic State group, agreeing to military operations in Iraq - but drawing a line for now against direct intervention in Syria.....

    Even the half-step of support, however, offered a boost to US President Barack Obama's effort to cast the fight as a global campaign to beat back a jihadist force that has assembled thousands of radical fighters and seized territory straddling Iraq and Syria..............http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/3-European-nations-offer-limited-support-against-ISIS/articleshow/43599221.cms
    27/9/14

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