US fighter jets bomb 16 more IS targets in Syria, Iraq -US admiral
ABOARD USS HARRY S. TRUMAN,- US Navy fighter jets flying from an aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean Sea bombed 16 new Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria on Monday.
Now in their fourth day, the strikes from the Mediterranean have opened a new front in the US air campaign against the militant group.
"We're getting the job done," Rear Admiral Bret Batchelder, commander of the USS Harry S. Truman strike group, told reporters on the ship as the strikes were being conducted.
