This post was originally published on Feb. 22.

The air campaign against the Islamic State group will continue regardless of an approaching humanitarian ceasefire in Syria, officials say.

"The areas where most of the humanitarian aid is going are areas where we don’t operate," Lt. Gen. Charles Brown, Jr., commander of U.S. Air Forces Central Command, said during a briefing Thursday.

"It doesn't stop operations against Daesh or ISIL," he said, using the alternative names for the group.

A humanitarian ceasefire was reached between U.S. and Russian officials in Munich on Feb. 11, but the details of the compromise's execution — acting more as a "cessation of hostilities" not including ISIS, nor the terror group Jabhat al-Nusra — remain to be seen. The goal is to provide basic goods to the besieged Syrian towns.

USAFCENT released video of the latest strikes on cash and weapons storage facilities near Mosul, Iraq (Feb. 13) and Abu Kamal, Syria (Feb. 15).

Iraq airstrikes

Using precision-guided bombs, Air Force and Navy aircraft wiped out five financial targets in Mosul; Coalition aircraft have executed about 120 airstrikes on cash sites, gas and oil plants, and crude oil collection points, Brown said. Eight coalition nations recently dropped about 80 precision-guided bombs in the area of operations.

"The objective of the coalition airstrikes was to restrict Daesh movement throughout the Euphrates River Valley," he said.

The video imagery is a collection of the coalition's successes to not only deliver airpower to the fight but "eventually defeat Daesh," Brown said.

Syria airstrikes

Oriana Pawlyk covers deployments, cyber, Guard/Reserve, uniforms, physical training, crime and operations in the Middle East, Europe and Pacific for Air Force Times. She was the Early Bird Brief editor in 2015. Email her at opawlyk@airforcetimes.com.

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