A U.S. official said that the attack was conducted using F-15 Eagle jets, A-10 Thunderbolt ground attack aircraft and AH-64 Apache helicopters.
The moves comes after U.S. forces last week seized an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast.
The U.S. currently has hundreds of troops deployed in eastern Syria as part of a coalition fighting the Islamic State group.
The Trump administration is adding another militarized zone to the southern U.S. border to support border security operations.
