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By January 2015, the United States was set to send 400 troops and hundreds of support staff to countries neighboring Syria in order to train 5,000 opposition soldiers a year for the next three years. [227] The countries taking part in the train-and-equip program were to include Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, as well as Turkey. [228]
On 1 January 2017, a United States drone strike killed Abu Omar al-Turkistani, a Jabhat Fatah al-Sham and Turkistan Islamic Party military commander, and three other JFS members near the town of Sarmada in the northern Idlib Governorate. [293] On 2 January, more than 25 JFS members were killed in an air raid by suspected U.S. warplanes. [294]
Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) is the United States military's operational name for the international war against the Islamic State (IS or ISIL), [100] including both a campaign in Iraq and a campaign in Syria, with a closely related campaign in Libya.
On 15 May 2015, 1st SFOD-Delta operators from the Joint Special Operations Command based in Iraq conducted an operation in Al-Amr to capture a senior Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader named Abu Sayyaf. Sayyaf and his guards resisted capture, resulting in a heavy firefight in which 13 ISIL fighters (including Sayyaf) were killed ...
On 15 May 2015, 1st SFOD-D operators from the Joint Special Operations Command based in Iraq conducted an operation in Al-Amr, Syria to capture a senior Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader named Abu Sayyaf, resulting in his death when he engaged United States forces in combat, after his location was confirmed by surveillance from British SAS operators.
After Russia’s military intervention in Syria in late 2015 to rescue Assad, Russian companies (along with the paramilitary group Wagner, now rebranded as AfricaCorp) gained access to Syria’s ...
The Palmyra offensive of May 2015 was a military operation launched during the Syrian Civil War by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on May 13–26, 2015, in an attempt to capture the government-held Tadmur District of the Homs Governorate, including the administrative centre of Tadmur, known in English as Palmyra.
?The White House will announce Friday that a small number of U.S. special operations forces will be sent into Syria, according to a senior U.S. official.