Middle East
Latest round of strikes against ISIS targeted infrastructure, CENTCOM says
Stars and Stripes
February 14, 2026
U.S. Central Command on Saturday said it conducted 10 strikes against 30 Islamic State targets in Syria from Feb. 3 to Thursday. (U.S. Central Command)
U.S. Central Command on Saturday said its forces conducted 10 strikes against more than 30 Islamic State targets in Syria from Feb. 3 to Thursday.
The strikes were conducted “with precision munitions delivered by fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and unmanned aircraft,” and specifically targeted infrastructure and weapon storage facilities, the command said in a news release.
The release did not specify resulting casualty figures from the strikes, instead saying that two months of missions under Operation Hawkeye Strike have killed or captured 50 terrorists and struck more than 100 infrastructure targets. The command gave the same overall casualty figure after a previous round of strikes from Jan. 27 to Feb. 2, which it said targeted a communications site, logistics node and weapons caches.
The operation was launched in response to the December shooting deaths of two U.S. soldiers, Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, and an American translator by a gunman tied to ISIS. The gunman, who attacked U.S. and Syrian security forces in Palmyra, was killed on site, and U.S. officials vowed swift retribution for the attack.
The announcement came a day after the command said American forces completed a nearly monthlong mission to transfer more than 5,700 detained ISIS fighters from northeastern Syria to Iraq.
The completion of the detainees’ transfer came after U.S. forces on Wednesday handed over the al-Tanf Garrison in Syria to local counterparts as part of a transition of the anti-ISIS mission.
Stars and Stripes reporters Phillip Walter Wellman and Lara Korte contributed to this report.