13 dead! The US military decapitation operation was unexpected, and its helicopter was blown into a pile of scrap iron!
Just one month after 2022, the U.S. military could not resist the sudden use of force, and it was the largest airborne beheading operation in 19 years.
On February 3, the Pentagon announced a successful U.S. military operation in Syria. A statement by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said, "U.S. special forces, under the control of U.S. Central Command, carried out a counterterrorism mission in northwestern Syria on Wednesday night." The mission was a success", and stressed that "there were no casualties on the Part of the U.S. Military." ”
The U.S. airborne special operation in Idlib, Syria, lasted about three hours. The U.S. Air Force conducted more than 5 attacks on selected targets. As media reports point out, the U.S. military has engaged in fierce clashes with extremists in the landing zone. In the village of Atema in particular, U.S. paratroopers surrounded one of the buildings, and the fighting around the house lasted about half an hour. That evening, U.S. President Joe Biden revealed that the U.S. military had carried out a beheading operation in northwestern Syria to eliminate kulasi, the leader of the extremist group.
On the same day, Alarabiya reported that the US military's airborne combat operation was similar to the previous ones, but on a larger scale. Syrian Observatory director Rahman revealed to AFP that the airborne operation near Atma was the largest coalition airborne operation since U.S. special forces captured extremist groups in Idlib on October 27, 2019.
In fact, the US military airborne beheading operation was not as smooth as its official statement. According to reports, although there were no casualties in the US military this time, there was an accident during the operation and caused heavy losses - a helicopter was scrapped. A U.S. official revealed that one of the helicopters involved in the raid on the village of Atema had a mechanical failure due to a reluctance to leave the helicopter to its opponents, and then the U.S. attack aircraft dropped a bomb and destroyed the malfunctioning helicopter to the ground.
Subsequently, images circulating on social media showed that the helicopter blown up by the US military in Atema, Idlib Province, Syria, was blown up into a pile of scrap iron. Pictures and video footage show the helicopter's wreckage scattered to the ground, almost beyond its face, except for the rotor. The helicopter was one of several helicopters in the U.S. military's beheading operation.
Regarding this US airborne operation, the Russian media gave the results. On February 3, Russia's TASS news agency quoted Sky News as saying that at least 13 people, including 6 children and 4 women, were killed in the U.S. counterterrorism operation in northern Syria. As Lebanese television channel Al Mayadeen noted, in the final phase of the operation, U.S. helicopters "destroyed two residential buildings, resulting in civilian casualties."
Live videos circulating on social media abroad showed people removing the bodies of at least nine men, women, and children from the rubble of badly damaged houses. Syrian witnesses also said the U.S. military's counterattack on the target house caused damage, but a senior U.S. military official said the explosion inside the house was not caused by U.S. fire, and it was likely that the target person detonated himself. The two-story house is believed to have been hit by U.S. missiles and a bomb was detonated in the ensuing clashes.
Although the killing of a leader of a terrorist organization resulted in the deaths of more than 10 civilians, including children and women, the U.S. military's beheading operation was not very successful.
According to the analysis of military analysts, the scale, scope and duration of this US airborne operation comprehensively show that the target of the US military's surprise attack is likely to be an important figure of the terrorist organization. Because the U.S. risked sending commandos, not just airstrikes, it was enough to show that the focus of the raid was on an important person. According to Al-Arabiya, there are also analyses that among the dead of the U.S. special forces airborne operation at dawn Thursday, 3 women may be the wives of terrorist leaders.
There are currently many camps for displaced people in the Atma region of Syria, and the leaders of radical terrorist groups have also set up their headquarters in this area. As a result, the U.S.-led coalition of nations often launches attacks in the region. On October 23 last year, the U.S. military announced that it had killed Matar, the prominent leader of the terrorist group, in a raid in northern Syria.
About 1,000 U.S. military officers and soldiers remain in Syria under the guise of helping the Kurds fight terrorists, including "green berets" U.S. special forces. It is foreseeable that after the US military airborne operation, there will be terrorists attacking the US military base in response.
