American warplanes have launched airstrikes against Daesh (ISIL) terrorists from an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea, according to the US military.
The strikes were launched on Friday. It was first time that the attacks were conducted from an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean on targets in the Middle East since 2003.
According to the US Navy, the fighter jets departed from the USS Harry S. Truman after the warship entered the Mediterranean travelling through the Suez Canal.
The Navy did not reveal whether the strikes were conducted in Iraq or Syria, or what sort of targets were attacked.
A senior US Navy official boasted that the airstrikes demonstrated the aircraft carrier's ability to carry out sustained missions even when moving from one region to another.
Since 2014, the United States and some of its allies have been carrying out airstrikes against alleged Daesh targets inside Iraq and Syria.
But analysts say the airstrikes have not killed many ISIL terrorists, only damaged the infrastructure of these two Arab countries.
According to reports, many of the Daesh terrorists were initially trained by the CIA to target the Syrian people and government.
In September of last year, Russia launched its own air offensive against the terrorists who were wreaking havoc in Syria. The Russian campaign, analysts say, has broken the backbone of ISIL and other militants, and has provided the Assad government an opportunity to defeat the foreign-sponsored terrorist onslaught.
Since March 2011, the United States and its regional allies, in particular Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, have been conducting a proxy war against Syria.
The conflict has left more than 470,000 Syrians dead and half of the country’s population of about 23 million displaced within or beyond the Arab country’s borders.
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