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Former NATO ambassador Kurt Volker said the Biden administration sent a specific message by not targeting Iran in recent airstrikes. “I suspect that what the administration is trying to do by not hitting Iran, is to send a signal to Iran, ‘Don’t hit us on our homeland, particularly during an election year,’” Volker said in…

The targeted sites in Iraq were mainly ‘devoid of fighters and military personnel at the time of the attack,’ a militia spokesman says.

Retaliatory strikes launched by the U.S. hit dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper spoke about the recent strikes by the U.S. in Iraq and Syria with CNN’s Abby Phillip in a recent interview. “I was pleased to see that in the statement by U.S. Central Command that they said they did attack Quds Force’s sites,” Esper said on “The Lead.” The U.S. began…

The strikes follow an air assault in Iraq and Syria on Friday that targeted other Iranian-backed militias in retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan.

Fhm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. on Friday began to carry out strikes against Iran-backed militants and Iranian military targets in Iraq and Syria in

A spokesperson for one of the main Iranian-backed militias in Iraq condemned U.S. strikes, saying Washington 'must understand that every action elicits a reaction.' But he then struck a more conciliatory tone.

The air assault was the opening salvo of U.S. retaliation for a drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend.

Overnight, F/A-18 fighter jets from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier, along with the USS Laboon, shot down seven drones in the Red Sea.

The U.S. and Britain struck 36 Houthi sites in Yemen in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked American and international interests