{"id":17242,"date":"2025-12-20T07:28:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=17242"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:28:37","slug":"us-military-launches-anti-isis-operation-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/12\/20\/us-military-launches-anti-isis-operation-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"US military launches anti-ISIS operation in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth has announced that the United States military has launched an operation named &#8220;Hawkeye Strike&#8221; against the extremist group ISIS in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hegseth said in a statement on social media platform X early this morning, that this is not the beginning of a war but rather a declaration of &#8220;revenge and a direct response&#8221; to last week&#8217;s attack on US military personnel in the Palmyra region of Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, the operation will aim to destroy &#8220;fighters, infrastructure, and weaponry&#8221; associated with ISIS. He stated, &#8220;This is not the beginning of a war \u2014 but a declaration of revenge. The United States, under President Trump, will never hesitate in defending its people and will not back down.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Hegseth mentioned that a number of ISIS members were killed in the initial stages of the operation, he did not specify the exact figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This operation comes on the heels of an agreement last week between the United States and the Syrian government to collaborate in the fight against ISIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth has announced that the United States military has launched an operation named &#8220;Hawkeye Strike&#8221; against the extremist group ISIS in Syria. Hegseth said in a statement on social media platform X early this morning, that this is not the beginning of a war but rather a declaration of &#8220;revenge and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17244,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242\/revisions\/17244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}