US strike hits Qaeda militants in Syria: Pentagon
The United States military says it has killed a number of ‘al-Qaeda’ militants during an attack in Syria.
The Pentagon said Wednesday that the US military carried out a strike in northwestern Syria, following an earlier raid that killed the spokesman of the militant group's Syrian branch, the al-Nusra Front.
"I can confirm that the US struck a vehicle killing several al-Qaeda militants," said spokesman Matthew Allen.
"The results of this strike are still being assessed."
The Defense Department said Monday that a US air raid targeted an al-Nusra meeting in northwest Syria the previous day.
Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate confirmed on Wednesday the death of its spokesman Abu Firas al-Suri in an airstrike.
The US-led coalition in Syria claims to have been pounding purported Daesh (ISIL) positions inside the Arab country since September 2014, without any authorization from Damascus or the UN. However, they have done little to stop the terrorists' advances in parts of Syria.
Currently there are dozens of US special operations forces in Syria, who are working closely with a collection of various armed groups that are trying to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
US officials have recently told Reuters on condition of anonymity that the administration of President Barack Obama is weighing a proposal to accelerate “recent gains against” ISIL terrorists in Syria and "greatly increase" the number of American special forces deployed there.
Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. Hundreds of thousands of people have reportedly lost their lives and millions have been displaced as a result of the violence.
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