US says it killed 37 ISIL and Hurras al-Din fighters in separate strikes in Syria | ISIL/ISIS News

According to CENTCOM, the two attacks occurred on September 16 and 24.

The U.S. military says it killed dozens of Islamic State (ISIS) militants and an al-Qaeda-linked armed group in two separate strikes in Syria this month.

In a statement released on Sunday, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said that a “large-scale airstrike” on a remote ISIL camp in central Syria on September 16 killed at least 28 militants, including four senior leaders.

The statement did not name the people killed but said the attack would impact ISIS’s “ability to conduct operations against the interests of the United States and our allies and partners.”

CENTCOM also said that an attack in northwestern Syria on September 24 killed nine fighters, including “Marwan Bassam ‘Abd-al-Ra’uf, a senior Hurras al-Din leader responsible for overseeing Syria’s military operations “is responsible.”

This was the second attack on the al-Qaeda-linked group’s leadership in as many months. In August, CENTCOM announced the killing of Abu-Abd al-Rahman al-Makki in an attack in Syria.

Hurras al-Din emerged in Syria in 2018 and was linked to al-Qaeda followers.

The U.S. has about 900 troops in Syria, as well as an unknown number of contractors. It said the forces were on a mission to advise and support local allies trying to prevent a resurgence of ISIS, which swept parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014.

The Syrian government has repeatedly expressed its opposition to the US role in Syria and called for the withdrawal of its forces.