U.S. Air Force ground support aircraft A-10 participates in the multinational NATO exercise Saber Strike in Adazi, Latvia, June 11, 2015. Reuters/Ints Kalnins
IBTimes: US Anti-ISIS Airstrikes In Syria: A-10 Warplanes Target Islamic State Group's Crude Oil Trucks
For the first time since the war against the Islamic State militant group began more than one year ago, U.S. warplanes launched strategic strikes on trucks carrying crude oil in Syria Monday, cutting off an important source of income for the terror group. The airstrikes were carried out by two AC-130 gunships and four low-flying A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft, and hit an estimated 116 trucks in Deir al-Zour in eastern Syria, according to a New York Times report.
Plans for the attack were formed before the terror group killed 129 people in attacks on Paris on Friday evening and early Saturday morning, according to officials.
WNU Editor: I suspect that the casualties from this air strike are enormous. I also expect that the Islamic State will cease using oil tanker convoys to transport its crude in the desert from now on. And while this U.S. campaign to destroy ISIS oil tankers started last week, credit has to go to Putin for initiating this quick U.S. response .... Putin Accuses The West Of Permitting The Oil Trade To Finance The Islamic State. Hours Later U.S. Jets Bomb ISIS Oil Convoys
More News On U.S. Airstrikes On An ISIS Oil Convoy That Destroyed 116 Oil Tankers
A-10 Takes Out ISIS Oil Tankers in Latest Battlefield Success -- DoD Buzz
US A-10 Attack Planes Hit ISIS Oil Convoy to Crimp Terror Funding -- Military.com
U.S. Warplanes Strike ISIS Oil Trucks in Syria -- NYT
The US is attacking ISIS oil trucks in Syria for the first time -- Business Insider
U.S. targets Islamic State oil shipments -- FOX News/EFE
US airstrikes destroy over 100 Daesh oil trucks -- Al Bawaba
US airstrikes destroy more than 100 ISIS oil trucks in Syria -- RT
2 comments:
This is all putins doing how the hell have they not been targeting oil convoys 5 miles long
They keep saying there are no targets or pkanes return with bombs intact when obviously there are.
Why are they not tracking the convoys to the buyer then warning those countries or individuals?
Thanks Putin the west is in your gratitude
Ps casulaties would be low in these sorties as apoarently to not upset isis they dropped flyers warning them to run away.
You gotta be kidding
Well we know now what some of that little talk on the side in Turkey was about. The use of russian heavy bombers was most likely a part also.
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