American policy on Iran may not face a radical change under President Joe Biden after all, if 120 bipartisan members of the House of Representatives have their way.
Biden resuscitates US diplomacy
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President Biden, flanked by the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and the Vice-President, Kamala Harris, delivers a speech at the State Department on 4 February, setting out his foreign policy
President Biden, flanked by the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and the Vice-President, Kamala Harris, delivers a speech at the State Department .
“AMERICA is back,” President Biden said during a speech at the State Department early this month. “Diplomacy is back at the centre of foreign policy.”
United States diplomacy, dumped in the wilderness during the Trump presidency, is being dusted down with some urgency. President Biden’s diplomats are being put to the test, even as they settle into their new posts.
CHICAGO: A US airstrike in Syria targeted facilities belonging to an Iranian-backed armed group, killing one fighter and wounding several others, according to the Associated Press. However, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that monitors the war in Syria, said as many as 22 fighters were killed.
Thursday’s strike signaled the first military action undertaken by US President Joe Biden, who took office on Jan. 20.
Pentagon officials said the strikes were retaliation for a rocket attack at the International Airport in Erbil on Feb. 15 that killed one civilian contractor and wounded a US service member and other coalition troops.
In first military operation under Biden, US hits Iranian-backed militias in Syria
Pentagon spokesperson Jon Kirby said the airstrikes near the Syrian-Iraqi border were “proportionate” and defensive.
A U.S. Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (“Lightning II”) jet flying. Credit: Michael Fitzsimmons/Shutterstock.
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Pentagon spokesperson Jon Kirby said the airstrikes near the Syrian-Iraqi border were “proportionate” and defensive.
He confirmed that the strikes “were authorized in response to recent attacks against American and coalition personnel in Iraq, and to ongoing threats to those personnel.”
The operation “destroyed multiple facilities located at a border control point used by a number of Iranian-backed militant groups,” including Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, said Kirby.
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