US Defense Sec. Hegseth, the guy looking to be a ‘Warror’ IS a Busy Man…..
This time not off the waters of the Caribbean or South America….
This is the Middle East….
The US Forces in Syria working to keep ISIS there, has suffered 2 troops and one contract worker deaths….
The US IS striking back at ISIS there…..
Could Trump be climbing BACK into a New INCREASED US vs ISIS Troop deployment ?
Friday’s assault followed a Dec. 13 ambush at a military base in the city of Palmyra that killed two members of the Iowa National Guard — Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29 — and Ayad Mansoor Sakat, 54, an Iraq-born interpreter who lived in Michigan. Three other U.S. soldiers and two members of Syria’s security forces were wounded, and President Donald Trump vowed afterwardthat the United States would retaliate….
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The Dec. 13 attack marked the first overseas combat deaths for the Pentagon this year, and it immediately forced the Trump administration to confront what to do in a long-running mission that Trump himself has voiced skepticism of in the past. The president has seemingly embraced Syria’s new interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda leader who has expressed a desire to bring stability to Syria following the toppling of longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad a year ago….
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, writing on social media, said Friday’s assault — which he dubbed Operation Hawkeye Strike, an apparent reference to the slain soldiers’ Iowa backgrounds — was “in direct response to the attack” last weekend that claimed the lives of American personnel.
No one has taken responsibility for the deadly attack, but U.S. officials have said that the Islamic State was probably responsible. Syrian officials have described the gunman as a member of the Syrian security forces who is suspected of sympathizing with the Islamic State….
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“This is not the beginning of the war — it is a declaration of vengeance,” Hegseth said. He added that anyone who targets Americans “will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you.”…
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