In Syria, U. S. forces conducted 108 missions with the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U. S. Kurdish allies. The U. S. military as well as 14 “unilateral” operations in 2022, resulting in the capture of 215 suspected ISIS operatives and the deaths of 466 suspected Islamic State fighters, CENTCOM reported Thursday.
It was also a busy year for U. S. troops in Iraq, who conducted 191 operations in partnership with Iraqi forces that led to the capture of 159 suspected ISIS operatives and the deaths of at least 220 suspected ISIS fighters, according to a statement from CENTCOM News.
According to CENTCOM, no U. S. soldiers in Iraq or Syria were killed or injured in operations in 2022.
The largest fighting took place in January, when ISIS fighters attempted to free thousands of suspected ISIS operatives from a criminal in Al-Hasakah, Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces, subsidized through the air power of the U. S. military. attack.
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According to CENTCOM, around 420 suspected ISIS militants were killed and members of the Syrian Democratic Forces lost their lives in the battle.
U. S. Air Force Central CommandUU. se declined to provide data on the number of missions conducted through U. S. Army aircraft. The U. S. military presence in Iraq and Syria in 2022 for combat against ISIS, which brought up “operational security purposes,” AFCENT spokeswoman Capt. Kayshel Trudell said.
In addition to the existing generation of ISIS fighters that U. S. troops are fighting, “there is an ‘ISIS army’ in custody in Iraq and Syria,” warned Army Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, head of CENTCOM.
Currently, some 10,000 suspected ISIS fighters and leaders in Iraq, 20,000 suspected ISIS militants in Syria are detained, Kurilla said in the CENTCOM press release.
Another possible risk remains that young ISIS fighters who are lately in custody and elsewhere may simply be “the next potential generation of ISIS,” Kurilla warned.
More than 25,000 youths are being held at al-Hol Kurdish refugee detention camp in Syria, he said.
“These young people in the camp are the main targets of ISIS radicalization,” Kurilla said. the camp. “
Between August 25 and September 18, the Syrian Democratic Forces arrested 300 suspected ISIS fighters inside al-Hol camp and seized 55 pounds of explosives and 25 hand grenades, CENTCOM said at the time. On September 20, U. S. troops helped the Syrian Democratic Forces. Forces to prevent two cars carrying seven suspected ISIS fighters from attacking the camp, according to CENTCOM.
The U. S. military’s strategy in Iraq and Syria appears to remain heavily dependent on killing or capturing ISIS’s mid- and high-level leaders. Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the group’s former leader, allegedly killed himself and his circle of family members in February in a US special forces raid in Syria. ISIS bombmaker Hani Ahmed Al-Kurdi was captured in Syria through special forces in Syria; Alleged ISIS leader Mahir al-Agal was killed by a US drone strike in Syria.
In December, CENTCOM reported that US troops had captured an alleged senior ISIS official in Syria, known only as “al-Zubaydi. “
Meanwhile, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who became the leader of ISIS after the death of his predecessor in February, killed in October through the Free Syrian Army, another organization of the Syrian Democratic Forces, CENTCOM showed in November. .
“We are determined and, more importantly, our partners in Iraq and Syria are determined to defeat ISIS lastingly,” said Maj. Gen. Matthew McFarlane, commander of Joint Task Force’s Operation Inherent Resolve, U. S. U. S. Multinational-military coalition led to defeat the terrorist group.
But even though ISIS lost the last territory it controlled just about 4 years ago, the organization continues to fight, launching 74 strikes in Syria and 73 strikes in Iraq between July and September, according to a Nov. 16 report through the leader. inspector. General Operation Inherent Resolution.
Even as Islamic State elements continue to provoke attacks, the organization has not shaped a primary insurgency or opened spaces in the same way as when it had a physical caliphate, said retired Gen. David Petraeus, who led U. S. troops in Iraq. the wave of 2007 and was also the head of CENTCOM.
“The remnants of ISIS because the underlying disorders — social alienation, lack of employment, political marginalization, government corruption and, of course, devout extremism — that largely arouse the grievances of Sunni Arabs in Iraq and Syria have not been fully resolved, Petraeus told Task.
He also noted that Iraqi security forces are still striving to fulfill their own functions necessary to defeat ISIS, adding intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as intelligence fusion.
“Needless to say, what’s needed is American advice, assistance and facilitators who can help our partners on the floor resolve all those messes (even beyond the military and intelligence aspects),” Petraeus said. “However, this has proven to be delicate” and difficult, given the Iraqi political scenario, and it is not yet transparent that the new administration will fully accept what the United States can provide, the Iraqi counterterrorism service recognizes the very important importance of what only the United States can provide. “
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