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The Army of USA announced this Friday that it has started a “large-scale attack” against Islamic State targets (IS) in Syria in retaliation for the ambush that the group carried out last week that killed two soldiers and an interpreter, all of them Americans, in the Syrian province of Homs.
“US forces have launched a large-scale attack against IS infrastructure and weapons depots in Syria. This massive attack follows the attack on US forces and their allies in Syria on December 13,” US Central Command said in a brief statement.
Shortly after this text was published, the Secretary of War, Pete Hegsethannounced the attack on social networks and explained that the campaign has been named Operation Hawkeye Attack.
Earlier today, U.S. forces commenced OPERATION HAWKEYE STRIKE in Syria to eliminate ISIS fighters, infrastructure, and weapons sites in direct response to the attack on U.S. forces that occurred on December 13th in Palmyra, Syria.
This is not the beginning of a war — it is a…
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) December 19, 2025
“This is not the beginning of a war, It’s a declaration of revenge“, explained Hegseth.
“As we said immediately after the brutal attack (on December 13), if Americans are attacked, anywhere in the world, they will spend the rest of their short and anguished lives knowing that the United States will pursue them, find them and eliminate them without mercy,” the Secretary of War adds in the text.
According to an anonymous US official cited by the newspaper The New York Timesdozens of suspected IS sites in various parts of central Syria were attacked with fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery salvos and The bombing is expected to last several hours.
The two soldiers and the translator attacked last Saturday by a single gunman near the Syrian city of Palmyra were the first Americans to die in the country since the fall of Bashar al Assad’s regime last year.