This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. As the moon moves into a new phase, so does the war against isis. The United States and five arab allies took advantage of a dark, moonless night to expand attacks against the Sunni Terrorist Group into syria. President obama stressed this is just the beginning of a Long Campaign to destroy isis. The allied attacks overnight involved the u. S. , bahrain, jordan, saudi arabia, qatar, and the united arab emirates. 14 isis targets were hit. The u. S. , acting alone, launched eight strikes against another terror group, an offshoot of al qaeda called khorasan. We have a team of correspondents on the story. If well go to david martin at the pentagon. Reporter the desert bloomed with fireballs as Cruise Missiles and precisionguided weapons, some of them launched by arab aircraft, hit an isis Training Area in eastern syria. That strike took place near the end of a fourhour aerial assault which began with Cruise Missiles launc
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. As the moon moves into a new phase, so does the war against isis. The United States and five arab allies took advantage of a dark, moonless night to expand attacks against the Sunni Terrorist Group into syria. President obama stressed this is just the beginning of a Long Campaign to destroy isis. The allied attacks overnight involved the u. S. , bahrain, jordan, saudi arabia, qatar, and the united arab emirates. 14 isis targets were hit. The u. S. , acting alone, launched eight strikes against another terror group, an offshoot of al qaeda called khorasan. We have a team of correspondents on the story. If well go to david martin at the pentagon. Reporter the desert bloomed with fireballs as Cruise Missiles and precisionguided weapons, some of them launched by arab aafircrt, hit an isis Training Area in eastern syria. That strike took place near the end of a fourhour aerial assault which bega