The U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser USS "Philippine Sea" (CG-58) launches RGM-109 "Tomahawk" cruise missiles. On 23 September 2014, 47 "Tomahawk" missiles were fired by "Philippine Sea" and USS "Arleigh Burke" (DDG-51), which were operating from international waters in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in Syria in the vicinity of Ar-Raqqah, Deir ez-Zor, Al-Hasakah and Al-Bukamal.