The US attacks IS camps in Syria, killing almost three dozen activists

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Wednesday that its forces in the Middle East carried out a “series of attacks” on several ISIS sites in Syria earlier this week, killing up to 35 terrorists.

The operation, which targeted several camps across Syria on Monday evening, also successfully took out “several” senior ISIS leaders, CENTCOM confirmed.

The press release also confirmed that no civilian casualties were “reported” in the widespread attacks.

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“The airstrikes will impact ISIS's ability to plan, organize and carry out attacks against civilians as well as the United States, allies and partners throughout the region and beyond,” the command said in a press release. “CENTCOM, along with allies and partners in the region, will continue to aggressively degrade ISIS’s operational capabilities to ensure its lasting defeat.”

The announcement comes a week after two US soldiers were injured in Iraq in an operation that killed at least seven ISIS operatives.

The American soldiers were reportedly in stable condition.

Syrian Kurdish security forces are set to release former detainees suspected of being members of the Islamic State (IS) group in the northeastern city of Hasakeh, Syria, on September 2, 2024. (Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images)

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Although ISIS remains a major security threat in Iraq and Syria, it no longer poses the same level of threat as it did ten years ago. However, concerns grew earlier this year after reports that the US may want to withdraw its troops from the country as early as 2025.

US soldiers have been fighting alongside coalition forces in Iraq and Syria since the terrorist group's emergence in 2014.

Fewer than 1,000 U.S. troops remain in Syria, while about 2,500 remain in Iraq.

Iraqi army soldiers celebrate while holding an Islamic State group flag they captured during a military operation to regain control of a village outside Mosul, Nov. 29, 2016. Ten years after the Islamic State group “ has proclaimed their caliphate in large parts of Iraq. In Syria and Syria, the extremists no longer control any country, have lost many prominent founding leaders and are largely no longer in the headlines of the world press. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

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Last month, the Pentagon announced that it plans to change its “footprint” in Iraq in 2025, but declined to elaborate on what that means in terms of the number of troops remaining.

U.S. and Iraqi coalition forces will continue to support anti-ISIS efforts in Syria as Washington works with Baghdad to determine future steps for U.S. troops in the fight against the terror network in the region.