contractor inside syria, plus a trump lawyer testifying in front of a federal grand jury in the classified documents case, but the former president s attention is on new york. he calls the manhattan prosecutor a degenerate and he recklessly warrants of death and destruction if he is charged with a crime, and right now president biden meeting with his counterpart to the north prime minister, justin trudeau, the visit happening in the united states and canada strike a new deal too slow or growing migrant search. now, though, we begin with the commander in chief moment for the president of the united states. president biden signing off retaliatory airstrikes in eastern syria. social media video. you see it here, capturing the smoldering fire fury of american missiles fired from f 15 fighter jets president hitting back in iran after a kamikaze drone flew directly into a coalition base, killing a contractor and wounding five other u. s service members. cnn obtaining video of ambul
getting reports of is that there is an escalation in tensions. there might have been a response but it but that that remains unclear. but in the background of all of this, you have the united states through intermediaries, actually talking directly with iran, about release of four americans who are being held illegally in iranian jails, and this bonuses in that arrangement for iran, so iran may have an eye on that. there are other things in play here as well. there is a regional rapprochement with bashar al assad, syria s president after more than a decade now of his civil war with arab allies, iran and russia both looked to have huge influence inside syria. but that rapprochement with arab allies perhaps means a dimunition of iran s control and access and interests inside syria. it s hard to tell what precipitates any particular action, but when they target a u s based like this, it is very clearly aimed at the united states at a time
contractor inside syria, plus a trump lawyer testifying in front of a federal grand jury in the classified documents case, but the former president s attention is on new york. he calls the manhattan prosecutor a degenerate and he recklessly warrants of death and destruction if he is charged with a crime, and right now president biden meeting with his counterpart to the north prime minister, justin trudeau, the visit happening in the united states and canada strike a new deal too slow or growing migrant search. now, though, we begin with the commander in chief moment for the president of the united states. president biden signing off retaliatory airstrikes in eastern syria. social media video. you see it here, capturing the smoldering fire fury of american missiles fired from f 15 fighter jets president hitting back in iran after a kamikaze drone flew directly into a coalition base, killing a contractor and wounding five other u. s service members. cnn obtaining video of ambulances raci
so that you ve covered this for quite some time. you hear john kirby saying we re not looking for war, but because these troops are there because the situation in syria remains so dicey because you have outside players like russia. like iran. it is a place where if you have a point to make, you can make it you can. it s one of those pressure points that iran picks upon. it has lots of different processes around the world. and this is the one the ones in syria. the ones in iraq are the ones that it uses often. to needle the united states so far . interestingly there doesn t seem to be a spike intentions there at the moment, you know, we re keeping an eye on local media in that area in syria. we can t verify it particularly well, because we just don t have access. we don t have our own eyes and ears on the ground there. but some of those local media are saying that to irgc it iranian islamic revolutionary guard people were killed on the ground that eight of the local group that was suppo
this iranian drone suspected iranian journal i should say it was a one way attack drone and it attacked infrastructure, essentially the u. s military base there in northeastern syria, and it exploded on impact right. it was targeting very specifically that base and we re also told that the us deliver. really targeted facilities in syria that it believed were being used by iranian proxy groups to store munitions and also for intelligence gathering reasons. but look, this is not the first time that the us has conducted this kind of airstrike targeting iranian proxy groups in the region. in fact, the us has about 900 troops in syria as you mentioned and they have really undergone multiple attacks from these iranian proxy groups over the last two years, as many as 78. attacks according to the commander of central command general eric carola, carola, also in testifying to lawmakers last week, he did say that the us is changing its defensive posture in syria to better protect us personnel. b