{"id":282363,"date":"2024-12-16T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=282363"},"modified":"2024-12-12T07:25:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T07:25:16","slug":"us-bombs-over-75-targets-in-syria-after-assad-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/12\/us-bombs-over-75-targets-in-syria-after-assad-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"US Bombs over 75 Targets in Syria after Assad Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"
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F-15 fighters escort a U.S. B-52 bomber in this 31 Aug 2021 photo.
(Photo: Japan Air Self-Defense Force\/U.S. Indo-Pacific Command\/flickr\/cc)<\/p><\/div>\n

“The Western press are waxing lyrical about the new Syria being born\u2014but not a word on the U.S. and Israeli bombs falling from the sky,” said Yanis Varoufakis. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

9 Dec 2024 – <\/em>U.S. military forces launched dozens of airstrikes on more than 75 Islamic State targets in Syria yesterday after the fall of longtime Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and amid ongoing Israeli and Turkish attacks on the war-torn Middle Eastern nation.<\/p>\n

According to<\/a> U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), warplanes including B-52 bombers, F-15 fighters, and A-10 ground attack aircraft “conducted dozens of precision airstrikes targeting known ISIS camps and operatives in central Syria.”<\/p>\n

CENTCOM called the strikes “part of the ongoing mission to disrupt, degrade, and defeat ISIS in order to prevent the terrorist group from conducting external operations and to ensure that ISIS does not seek to take advantage of the current situation to reconstitute in central Syria.”<\/p>\n

The U.S., “together with allies and partners in the region, will continue to carry out operations to degrade ISIS operational capabilities even during this dynamic period in Syria,” CENTCOM added.<\/p>\n

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“The Biden administration ordering ongoing airstrikes is a disappointing sign that they have no intent on reversing their deadly policy of interventionism.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Responding Monday to the latest attacks on Syria by U.S. forces, Danaka Katovich, national co-director of the peace group CodePink, told Common Dreams<\/em>: “We condemn the U.S. airstrikes in Syria. The U.S. has sowed chaos in Syria and the entire region for years and the Biden administration ordering ongoing airstrikes is a disappointing sign that they have no intent on reversing their deadly policy of interventionism.”<\/p>\n

U.S. and coalition forces have killed<\/a> and maimed at least tens of thousands of Syrians and Iraqis during the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations as part of the anti-ISIS campaign and wider so-called War on Terror.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the dearth of coverage of the strikes by the corporate media, prominent Greek leftist Yanis Varoufakis<\/a>\u00a0said<\/a> on social media that “the Western press are waxing lyrical about the new Syria being born\u2014but not a word on the U.S. and Israeli bombs falling from the sky.”<\/p>\n

“Is there no bottom to the moral void of the Western press?” he added.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s U.S. strikes came as al-Assad and relatives fled to Russia\u2014where they have been granted asylum\u2014amid the fall of the capital<\/a>, Damascus, to rebel forces.<\/p>\n

Also on Sunday, Israeli forces seized more territory in Syria’s Golan Heights and ordered<\/a> residents of five villages to “stay home and not go out until further notice” if they want to remain safe. Israel<\/a> conquered the western two-thirds of the Golan Heights in 1967 and has unlawfully occupied it ever since. In 1981, Israel illegally annexed the occupied lands.<\/p>\n

“We will not allow any hostile force to establish itself on our border,” right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2014who is wanted<\/a> by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza\u2014said<\/a> in a video posted on social media.<\/p>\n

Numerous Israelis celebrated the seizure on social media, while others cautioned against boasting about what is almost certainly an illegal conquest.<\/p>\n

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