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Inherent Resolve Strikes Target ISIS in Syria, Iraq, March 3, 2017


SOUTHWEST ASIA–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2017 — U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria yesterday, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today.

Officials reported details of the latest strikes, noting that assessments of results are based on initial reports.

Strikes in Syria

Coalition military forces conducted two strikes consisting of four engagements in Syria:

  • Near Palmyra, a strike damaged a bridge.
  • Near Raqqa, a strike destroyed a weapons storage facility.

Strikes in Iraq

Coalition military forces conducted 14 strikes consisting of 74 engagements in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s government:

  • Near Haditha, a strike suppressed an ISIS tactical unit.
  • Near Mosul, two strikes engaged an ISIS tactical unit; destroyed six fighting positions, four heavy machine guns, three medium machine guns, two tunnels, a rocket-propelled grenade system, a vehicle bomb and a vehicle bomb facility; damaged seven supply routes; and suppressed 22 mortar teams.
  • Near Qaim, a strike destroyed an ISIS storage facility.
  • Near Rawah, 10 strikes engaged an ISIS staging area and destroyed nine ISIS-held buildings.

Part of Operation Inherent Resolve

These strikes were conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the operation to destroy ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The destruction of ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria also further limits the group’s ability to project terror and conduct external operations throughout the region and the rest of the world, task force officials said.

The list above contains all strikes conducted by fighter, attack, bomber, rotary-wing or remotely piloted aircraft; rocket-propelled artillery; and some ground-based tactical artillery when fired on planned targets, officials noted.

Ground-based artillery fired in counterfire or in fire support to maneuver roles is not classified as a strike, they added. A strike, as defined by the coalition, refers to one or more kinetic engagements that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single or cumulative effect. For example, task force officials explained, a single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIS vehicle is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against a group of ISIS-held buildings and weapon systems in a compound, having the cumulative effect of making that facility harder or impossible to use. Strike assessments are based on initial reports and may be refined, officials said.

The task force does not report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points against a target.

Source: http://defense.gov

 

 


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