U.S. Central Command announced over the past hour that U.S. forces with partners struck multiple Islamic State targets across Syria at about 12:30 p.m. ET on Jan. 10, 2026, releasing footage of mission preparations at Middle East airbases and the airstrikes, as part of Operation Hawkeye Strike launched Dec. 19, 2025, following a Dec. 13 Palmyra ambush killing two U.S. soldiers and one U.S. civilian interpreter. The footage, published by CENTCOM and shared by Faytuks Network and Sent Defender, depicts the second round of strikes under the operation. CENTCOM stated the action targeted ISIS sites in Syria. This follows U.S. military airstrikes against ISIS in Syria from 7:46 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. UTC earlier Jan. 10, and International Coalition helicopters firing on sites near Al-Tabani in Deir ez-Zor countryside up to 7:46 p.m. UTC, as reported by local sources including Euphrates Post and Naher Media. Separately, over the past hour, unofficial drone footage surfaced showing Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham detonating an up-armored SVBIED at Aleppo city's west entrance on Nov. 29, 2024, near coordinates provided, according to HKaaman citing E_of_Justice. Additional footage showed a second SVBIED exploding in central Khan al-Asal on the same date, with ID '106' noted by WrplckEngineerM.
