US-led Air-strikes hits government targets in Syria – USA Intensifies strikes
US-led coalition warplanes have bombed several Syrian army positions in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor
The attack took place shortly after midnight
US-led coalition aircraft inflicted limited material damage and no casualties.
The airstrikes, which hit near the city of Al-Bukamal
Earlier, Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, an ally of the Syrian forces in the fight with Islamic State said the coalition jets targeted two Syrian army outposts, including an energy installation near the Iraqi border.
The area has seen rapid advances by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
Pushing against IS militants near Al-Bukamal and moving towards the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
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Last week, the SDF announced they took control over a former IS base on the Euphrates River near the Syrian-Iraqi border, moving closer to territory controlled by the Syrian government.
Syria has recently been subjected to massive bombardment campaigns by another US ally, Israel, which in early May sent 28 fighter jets that fired some 60 air-to-surface missiles into Syrian territory against what Tel-Aviv claimed were targets belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Israel said that its largest attack in years was a response to Iran’s launching an attack on the Israeli-controlled part of the occupied Golan Heights from Syria. The Syrian air defenses retaliated, allegedly firing some 100 missiles at Israeli warplanes.
US and coalition assets have recently intensified strikes on the remaining pockets of so-called Islamic State (IS) fighters inside Syria under Operation ‘Roundup’.
The activities are mainly focused on the Euphrates River Valley around the villages of Abu Kamal and Al Shadaddi.
Since May 1, the coalition has conducted 132 airstrikes.
It marks a significant increase in kinetic strikes, which totalled 309 in the first three months of the year, with 1,821 weapons released
