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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
UAE confirms air strikes against ISIS in Syria
2014-09-24
The UAE Air Force launched its first strikes against ISIS targets on Monday evening, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Tuesday.

"The operation was conducted in coordination with other forces participating in the international effort against the ISIS," the ministry said in a statement.

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Jordan also confirmed they sent planes to attack terrorist sites.

"Both A group of fighter jets from the Royal Bahrain Air Force (RBAF) carried out earlier this morning, along with the air forces of the Gulf Cooperation Council, allied and friendly countries, air strikes against a number of selected targets ... and destroyed them," the Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) General Headquarters said in a statement carried by the state news agency BNA.

Jordan said both its warplanes also joined the US-led strikes against the terrorist group in Syria and Iraq.

"We took part in the strikes which are part of our efforts to defeat terrorism in its strongholds," said government spokesman Mohammed Al Momani.

Jordan’s military said its planes had destroyed an unspecified number of targets close to its borders with Syria and Iraq linked to ‘terrorist groups’ who have “committed attacks of sabotage” on its soil. It said all the planes had returned to base safely afterwards.
Posted by:Steve White

#2  "Operation Poll-Raiser?"

"Operation Mid-Term?"

"Operation Preventive Unnamed Kinetic Exercise"?
Posted by: Pappy   2014-09-24 17:17  

#1  US hasn't produced a name for the operation yet.

How about 'Operation Preventive Kinetic Stuff that's not really a war'
Posted by: lord garth   2014-09-24 16:34  

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