BarcelonaThe United States has launched major airstrikes this Friday against alleged headquarters of the Islamic State in Syria to avenge the death of two American soldiers who died in a terrorist attack in the center of the country last Saturday. US forces have attacked dozens of suspected locations of the terrorist group in various parts of central Syria, including weapons storage areas and other buildings supporting operations, a US official told The New York Times on condition of anonymity.
According to this source, the air and artillery strikes are expected to last several hours, until well into the early hours of Saturday in Syria, in what the US official described as “a massive attack”. At the same time, several users on social networks in Syria have reported explosions in large areas of the country.
The soldiers killed last Saturday were the first American casualties in the country since the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad last year. They were supporting counter-terrorism operations against the Islamic State in Palmyra, a city in central Syria, when they were attacked by a lone gunman, according to US and Syrian officials.
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