Congress has not authorized war, but the U.S. bombed two countries on Monday: Yemen and Syria. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) previously confirmed an airstrike on a Houthi rebel military facility in northern Yemen.
The Houthi Department of Defense building in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, was reportedly among the targets who came under attack by U.S. warplanes. “On December 16, Yemeni time, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted a precision air attack on an Iranian-backed Houthi-led main command and control facility in Houthi-controlled territory in Sanaa, Yemen,” CENTCOM said in a recent statement.
Separately, CENTCOM said Monday that American forces bombed ISIS camps in Syria, killing at least 12 Islamic State fighters.
The Pentagon further said the attacks “were carried out as part of an ongoing mission to disrupt, humiliate and subjugate ISIS, preventing the terrorist group from conducting foreign operations and ensuring that ISIS does not seek ways to recover in central Syria.”
Now, the Pentagon appears to be in a new fight against both the “Iranian axis” in Yemen and the heavy-handed Sunni terrorists in the heart of Syria.
Interestingly, the Syrian attacks took place in areas previously considered the responsibility of the Russian military, as well as in the now-defunct Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad.
The U.S. called the terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) a branch of al-Qaeda in its earlier iteration, was once an open ally of ISIS, and now has control over Damascus and syria’s major cities.
Turkey and Israel have also been involved in the bombing of Syria, but Israel has directed its literally hundreds of strikes at lowering and destroying the Syrian army’s remaining missiles, planes, equipment and bunkers.
Currently, the Pentagon also has at least 900 soldiers occupying oil and gas fields in northeastern Syria, but the Syrian Kurds it supports have increasingly clashed with pro-Turkish forces and directly with the Turkish army, which is still concentrating troops on the border with northern Syria.
AntiWar.com’s Dave DeCamp reached out to Biden administration officials to ask about the annoying question of whether Congress would allow foreign fighters to be bombed in at least two conflict theaters.
The answer was: “Biden and Harris told me that the U.S. was not at war, but today they bombed Syria and Yemen,” DeCamp wrote to X.
