US, Israel Announce Targeted Killings of Terror Leaders in Syria and Lebanon
The U.S. and Israel announced on Friday that their respective forces had killed terror leaders from ISIS and Hezbollah in separate counterterrorism operations.
CENTCOM troops carried out a raid in al-Bab, Aleppo Governorate, Syria, and killed senior ISIS leader Dhiya’ Zawba Muslih al-Hardani and his two adult sons, who also have ties to the terror organization, according to a statement from CENTCOM.
It added that three women and three children who "were also on the target" were unharmed in the raid. "These ISIS individuals posed a threat to U.S. and Coalition Forces, as well as the new Syrian Government," CENTCOM said in a statement. — Fox News
Our Take: There is something duplicitous about the way this headline is written. It seems designed to imply that the US and IDF worked together on both these operations, effectively merging Hezbollah and ISIS together in the minds of the readers.
As the article explains: The US military targeted ISIS in a strike; the IDF targeted Hezbollah in a separate operation.
It's also important to note that Hezbollah is one of the few groups that first opposed and fought ISIS in 2011, when they came to the aid of Syrian President Bashar al Assad. They have been fighting ISIS as long as anybody, and now Fox News is presenting them as somehow related. Hezbollah and the IDF are fighting because Israel is occupying southern Lebanon and southern Syria, but also because Hezbollah has pledged to fight the IDF until it leaves Gaza.
Fox News continues to obfuscate information in ways that benefit the regime and its pro-war agenda. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
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