CNN News:美国正在单独针对呼罗珊恐怖组织展开打击行动

The U.S. is at war with ISIS, and that`s not the only terrorist group America is targeting in the Middle East. I`m Carl Azuz at the CNN Center. Thank you for watching today.

美国正在与伊斯兰组织展开战争，并且这并不是美国在中东地区唯一的恐怖组织目标。我是Carl Azuz，这里是CNN学生新闻中心，欢迎您的收看。

The U.S. led airstrikes against terrorist organizations Monday night, they included missiles as you just saw, and they included warplanes, fighters and bombers aiming at ISIS terrorists, their training grounds, their supply trucks and their control centers.

美国在周一晚上开始对恐怖组织发动空袭，就像您刚才看到的，空袭包括发射导弹，还有战斗机，轰炸机都在瞄准ISIS恐怖组织，他们的训练场地，补给车辆和控制中心。

A human rights group in Syria estimates that more than 70 ISIS terrorists were killed. CNN cannot confirm that.

叙利亚人权组织估计已经有超过70名ISIS恐怖组织成员死亡。CNN无法确认这一说法真实性。

What`s different about these strikes, they are in Syria, a country currently at civil war. Previously, U.S. airstrikes had been limited to ISIS targets in Iraq.

关于此次打击有什么不同呢?此次袭击发生在叙利亚，一个正在发生内战的国家，之前，美国空袭一般瞄准伊拉克ISIS恐怖组织目标。

Also, the attacks weren`t made the U.S. alone. Other Middle Eastern nations including Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, participated in strikes against ISIS. Some analysts say the U.S. waited too long to lead these strikes in Syria, that the terrorists have already entrenched themselves, and that it will take more than airstrikes to eliminate them.

同时，美国并不是在孤军奋战，一些其他中东国家包括沙乌地阿拉伯，约旦，阿拉伯联合酋长国都加入到了对抗ISIS行动中来。一些分析人士认为美国等待这场战役的时间过于长久，导致叙利亚境内的恐怖分子已经盘踞，将会花费更多时间来彻底消灭他们。

The U.S. says this is only the beginning of its action against ISIS. Separately, the U.S. acted alone in targeting another terrorist group, Khorasan.

美国方面称这只是对抗ISIS组织的开始，另外，美国正在针对另一个恐怖组织，呼罗珊恐怖组织发起进攻。

This is a group in western Syria, near Aleppo, clear on the other side of the country from where they struck ISIS. They had been watching them for some time, by all accounts, and believed that these al Qaeda operatives were in the final stages of executing the plan to attack U.S. and - or Western targets. The intelligence was showing that they were in the stages of the ability to make non-detectable explosives and put them in very common items such as electronics or toiletries, the type of thing that the U.S. worried could make it past the airport screening, obviously.

这个组织在叙利亚西部接近阿勒颇的地方，距离他们袭击ISIS组织基地的另一边。他们已经观察这个组织有一段时间了，通过分析所有账户资料，他们认为这些基地组织成员最后的袭击目标为美国或者西方国家。据情报显示目前该组织已经发展到制作无法被检测到物品的阶段，隶属电子产品或者化妆品，美国方面担心这类东西在经过几场安检时不能被检测发现。

So, that`s why the U.S. struck Khorasan targets. But does President Obama need congressional approval to do it?

这也就是为什么美国要袭击呼罗珊的原因。但是奥巴马总统的行动需要国会的批准吗?

In 2001, Congress authorized any U.S. president to use military force against groups that participated in the September 11 attacks on America. Al Qaeda led that attack, Khorasan is an al Qaeda affiliate.

在2001年，国会授权任何总统有权使用武力打击参与911袭击美国行动的团体。基地组织策划了该行动，呼罗珊是基地组织的一个分支。

So, the White House says it does not need congressional approval.

所以白宫方面称奥巴马不需要国会的批准就可以采取行动。