CENTCOM: US, PARTNERS, BEATING ‘DEGRADED’ ISLAMIC STATE GROUP
December 30, 2022 ·Carl Prine
US Central Command is touting its final report for 2022 as proof it’s “degraded” the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, but questions persist about how deeply the terrorist organization has been wounded.
Released Thursday, Dec. 29, the brief counted 313 operations against ISIS in both Middle Eastern nations.
CENTCOM disclosed that 14 unilateral operations conducted by US forces, and another 108 operations with Syrian Democratic Forces, triggered the deaths of 466 Islamic State group “operatives” and the detentions of 215 others.
In Iraq, CENTCOM conducted 191 operations alongside Iraqi security forces, killing “at least 220 ISIS operatives” and imprisoning 159 others, according to the release.
“The emerging, reliable and steady ability of our Iraqi and Syrian partner forces to conduct unilateral operations to capture and kill ISIS leaders allows us to maintain steady pressure on the ISIS network,” said US Army Maj. Gen. Matt McFarlane, the commander of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, in the brief.
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