In the Syrian city of Manbij,one US and one British soldier were reportedly killed in an IED explosion.The troops were on a mission against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant militants.The British service member was embedded with US troops at the time.No further details were immediately available.
Earlier,a US official said two Operation Inherent Resolve coalition soldiers of unspecified nationality had been killed.*
On 29 March 2018,Pentagon Spokesperson Dana White commented on the situation in Syria:
Important work remains to guarantee the lasting defeat of these violent extremists.Our commitment to win must outlast the so-called physical caliphate,and the warped ideas that guide the calculated cruelty of ISIS (another name for ISIL).*
Manbij is a city of 100,000 people located in Northern Syria,30 km west of the Euphrates River.It is a centre for OIR training of the Syrian Democratic Forces engaged in combating ISIL and other extremist elements.The US is known to have sent its Special Operations Forces into Manbij.*
On 30 March,Combined Joint Task Force OIR issued a news release stating that between 23-29 March,OIR coaltion forces conducted 11 strikes consisting of 12 engagements against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.All the Syria strikes were near Abu Kamal,administrative centre of Abu Kamal district,which is in Eastern Syria near the Iraqi border.An ISIS tactical unit and an ISIS fighting position were destroyed in these strikes.
In Iraq,OIR forces destroyed an ISIS tunnel system near Ramadi in Anbar Province.
Near Qayarrah,a city of 15,000 in southern Nineveh Governate about 60 km south of Mosul,OIR forces destroyed three ISIS tunnels and an ISIS watercraft.
OIR strikes are carried out by:
fighter,attack,bomber,rotary-wing or remotely piloted aircraft;as well as:
rocket-propelled artillery;and ground-based tactical artillery.
Only limited specifics about the strikes are disclosed.
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