Middle East

US, 35 Isis targets hit in Syria. Jordanian F-16s also deployed

Around 12.30 p.m. US time on Saturday 10 January, US Central Command forces, together with allied forces, conducted large-scale attacks against several Isis targets across Syria

10 January 2026

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Thirty-five Isis targets were hit yesterday in Syria, according to American sources quoted by the BBC, who said that more than 20 aircraft were used in the raids, including several F-16s of the Jordanian forces.

Around 12.30 p.m. US time on Saturday, 10 January, US Central Command forces, together with allied forces, conducted large-scale strikes against several Isis targets across Syria. This was announced by Centcom on its social accounts, emphasising that the raids are part of Operation Hawkeye Strike 'launched on 19 December 2025, on the orders of Donald Trump'.

The United States therefore returns to conduct large-scale strikes against Isis targets in Syria. The announcement came from Centcom itself, which points out that the raids are part of Operation Hawkeye Strike "launched on 19 December 2025, at the behest of Donald Trump".

In Aleppo, meanwhile, tension is still high after several days of clashes between pro-government forces and Kurds in certain areas of the city. And for many civilians, the nightmare of war is back: 155,000 people have been displaced from neighbourhoods where there has been violence in the past week, according to Governor Azzam al-Gharib.

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In the last few hours, meanwhile, Syrian state TV reported that fighters "surrendered" to the Damascus-controlled and Turkish-backed army "have been transferred by bus" to Tabaqa, a town in the north-east that lies in the Kurdish-controlled area itself. Earlier, the Syrian army had claimed to have completed a "security sweep" in an area where its forces had clashed with Kurdish fighters, a circumstance denied by the latter.

Developments in this particularly delicate phase in Syria's second city, also one of the main theatres of the devastating conflict that shook the country from 2011 onwards, therefore remain uncertain. "We call on all parties to exercise maximum restraint, cease hostilities immediately and return to dialogue," is the appeal made by Tom Barrack, special envoy of Donald Trump's US administration, after a meeting with the national leader Ahmad Sharaa, who came to power after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime at the end of 2024 and is now recognised as president by Washington itself and other major Western countries. The situation on the ground, where a ceasefire announcement in the early hours of Friday was followed by other phases of clashes and bombardments, seems to be a setback to Sharaa's own plan: to integrate the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of militias with a Kurdish majority formed in 2015, into the national institutions under his leadership, based on an agreement dating back to last March. Even in the last few hours, signs of resistance to this prospect have come from the Kurdish side, with the militias opposed to the Syrian army so far showing determination not to stay out of Aleppo altogether. According to Friday's figures from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the clashes over the past week have already left at least 25 people dead, including women and children, and around 100 wounded.

"The violence threatens to undermine the progress made since the fall of the Assad regime," is the warning from Barrack, who says he is "concerned" about the situation.