The Daily Populous Monday September 30th, 2024 night edition
Authored by apnews.com and submitted by CouldBeBatman

BEIRUT (AP) — In Syria, 37 militants affiliated to the extremist Islamic State group and an al-Qaeda-linked group were killed in two strikes, the United States military said Sunday.

Two of the dead were senior militants, it said.

U.S. Central Command said it struck northwestern Syria on Tuesday, targeting a senior militant from the al-Qaeda-linked Hurras al-Deen group and eight others. They say he was responsible for overseeing military operations.

They also announced a strike from earlier this month on Sept. 16, where they conducted a “large-scale airstrike” on an IS training camp in a remote undisclosed location in central Syria. That attack killed 28 militants, including “at least four Syrian leaders.”

“The airstrike will disrupt ISIS’ capability to conduct operations against U.S. interests, as well as our allies and partners,” the statement read.

There are some 900 U.S. forces in Syria, along with an undisclosed number of contractors, mostly trying to prevent any comeback by the extremist IS group, which swept through Iraq and Syria in 2014, taking control of large swaths of territory.

U.S. forces advise and assist their key allies in northeastern Syria, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, located not far from strategic areas where Iran-backed militant groups are present, including a key border crossing with Iraq.

PQ1206 on September 29th, 2024 at 19:18 UTC »

Been a rough couple months for terror groups in the region. Anyone can get got.

ApprehensiveStark25 on September 29th, 2024 at 18:29 UTC »

Good riddance to assholes of the world. The Syrian civil war is insanely brutal on the regular civilian population.

whatsthatidk on September 29th, 2024 at 18:09 UTC »

Terminally online reddit users will say that this is bad, but if you are a normal human being this is a good thing. The war crimes and human rights abuses in Syria are terrible and I don’t think we should ever apologize for killing those responsible for inflicting such horrible pain and terror on innocent civilians. If another country did this there wouldn’t even be a news story here.

Edit: Thanks for the Reddit Cares message by the way. Completely proving my point.

Edit 2: Please have evidence that the US lied in this bombing and hit civilians before you reply to this comment saying that they did and that they always do that. It isn't helpful and gets us nowhere. I have never once said that I support the killing of innocent civilians and I shouldn't be accused of that. I am willing to change my position on if this was a good strike if this news story does turn out to be a lie but the fact that some of you already jump there says a lot.