{"id":1267646,"date":"2022-02-03T09:08:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1267646"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:08:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:08:29","slug":"pentagon-confirms-women-and-children-dead-in-u-s-special-forces-syria-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-confirms-women-and-children-dead-in-u-s-special-forces-syria-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Confirms Women and Children Dead in U.S. Special Forces Syria Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpentagon-confirms-women-and-children-dead-in-u-s-special-forces-syria-raid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1267646&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">U.S. Special Forces operators were involved in an action that killed 13 people, including women and children, during an airborne counterterrorism raid&nbsp;in northwestern Syria across the early hours of Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Four children, two women and seven men were reportedly killed during the two-hour attack which reportedly left behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220203-13-killed-in-rare-nw-syria-raid-by-us-special-forces\">blood-stained<\/a> walls and \u201cscattered\u201d body parts \u2013 the Pentagon has declined to comment on which individual they were specifically targeting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>This has left the media speculating as to whether the attack was aimed at Al-Queda or at the Islamic State,&nbsp;<em>AP<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-syria-terrorism-john-kirby-counterterrorism-ca598136de014e008f746a35f6f721b0\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Civilian eyewitnesses described helicopters arriving in the region around 1:10 am, and for forty-five minutes a translator advised any women to surrender or leave the area. Reportedly the U.S. troops were met with silence before a firefight between rebels and U.S. forces begun upon their landing and dismounting from the aircraft \u2013 it is unclear who fired first.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. troops were also forced to blow up one of their own helicopters in a controlled explosion during the operation after it experienced a mechanical failure.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>This would have been to prevent the embarrassment of it falling into terrorist hands, as happened when U.S. forces left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-58356045\">up to 167<\/a> aircraft, including 33 Black Hawk helicopters for the Taliban to commandeer after President Joe Biden\u2019s disastrous withdrawal in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>WARNING: Graphic images follow<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19736450\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238153309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19736450\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238153309-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A picture shows on February 3, 2022 the scene following an overnight raid by US special operations forces against suspected jihadists in Syria\u2019s northwestern province of Idlib which left at least nine people dead, including three civilians. (MOHAMMED AL-RIFAI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19736474\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238152713.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19736474\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238152713-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A picture shows on February 3, 2022 the scene following an overnight raid by US special operations forces against suspected jihadists in Atme, in Syria\u2019s northwestern province of Idlib. (MOHAMMED AL-RIFAI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19736490\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238152104.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19736490\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238152104-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Another scene following an overnight raid by US special operations forces against suspected jihadists in Atme, in Syria\u2019s northwestern province of Idlib. (MUHAMMAD HAJ KADOUR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The press secretary for the Department of Defense, John Kirby, in a statement said the mission was \u201csuccessful\u201d and that there were \u201cno U.S. casualties\u201d. Kirby declined at this stage to give any further information, and did not confirm the body count.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights suggested the target would have had to have been of significance as otherwise the U.S. would not have landed the helicopters and soldiers would not have disembarked.<\/p>\n<p>The raid is the largest U.S. raid of this type since 2019 when President Donald Trump authorised the targeting and killing of&nbsp;Islamic State leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/10\/27\/donald-trump-confirms-death-of-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi\/\">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi<\/a>. Trump at the time described al-Baghdadi\u2019s death as: \u201cHe died like a dog, he died like a coward\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The American strike team targeted the Idlib area of Syria, a region of over three million, which is the last Syrian region to stand against the Assad government. The area is reported to be infested with jihadists from a multitude of groups, and the U.S. have carried out multiple operations against \u201chigh-value\u201d Islamist targets over the last few months.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19736498\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238151651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19736498\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238151651-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Syrian civil defence evacaute a body on February 3, 2022 following an overnight raid by US special operations forces against suspected jihadists in northwestern Syria. (ABDULAZIZ KETAZ\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The attack on Thursday comes just less than a week after fighters from the Islamic State attempted to break out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/deadly-fighting-between-is-kurd-forces-in-syria\/\">3,500 prisoners<\/a> from the&nbsp;Ghwayran prison in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh.<\/p>\n<p>It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/deadly-fighting-between-is-kurd-forces-in-syria\/\">estimated<\/a>&nbsp;some 374 IS militants, and 120 Syrian soldiers and prison workers died during the ten-day siege, where IS was initially able to seize control of the prison. It has since been recaptured by the Syrian authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Special Forces operators were involved in an action that killed 13 people, including women and children, during an airborne counterterrorism raid\u00a0in northwestern Syria across the early hours of Thursday &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}