Image Credit: US Navy U.S. military and partner nations, including Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates carrie...
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The attacks used a mix of fighter, bomber, remotely piloted aircraft and Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles to conduct 14 strikes against ISIL targets.
The strikes destroyed or damaged multiple ISIL targets in the vicinity of Ar Raqqah, Dayr az Zawr, Al Hasakah, and Abu Kamal and included ISIL fighters, training compounds, headquarters and command and control facilities, storage facilities, a finance center, supply trucks and armed vehicles.
US Navy launched 47 Tomhawk cruise missiles from USS Arleigh Burke and USS Philippine Sea operating from international waters in the Red Sea and North Arabian Gulf.
U.S. strike fleet included F/A-18, F-22 Raptors, B-1 bombers and Predator UAVs. Saudi could have used their Boeing F-15s and Jordan their F-16 fighter jets.
Almost 95 percent of the munitions dropped during the airstrikes were precision-guided munitions.
Also, in Iraq yesterday, U.S. continued to attack ISIL terrorists, using attack aircraft to conduct four airstrikes. The airstrikes destroyed two ISIL Humvees, an ISIL armed vehicle and an ISIL fighting position southwest of Kirkuk.
To date, U.S. Central Command has conducted a total of 194 airstrikes across Iraq against ISIL.
Separately, the United States exclusively has also taken action to disrupt the imminent attack plotting against the United States and Western interests conducted by a network of seasoned al-Qa'ida veterans - sometimes referred to as the Khorasan Group - who have established a safe haven in Syria to develop external attacks, construct and test improvised explosive devices and recruit Westerners to conduct operations.
In total, U.S. Central Command conducted eight strikes against Khorasan Group targets west of Aleppo to include training camps, an explosives and munitions production facility, a communication building and command and control facilities.
