President Joe Biden directed the United States military to carry out multiple precision airstrikes against facilities linked to Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq and Syria on Sunday in response to drone attacks against U.S. personnel and facilities, according to the Department of Defense.
A statement by Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby emailed to American Military News read:
At President Biden’s direction, U.S. military forces earlier this evening conducted defensive precision airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region. The targets were selected because these facilities are utilized by Iran-backed militias that are engaged in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks against U.S. personnel and facilities in Iraq. Specifically, the U.S. strikes targeted operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria and one location in Iraq, both of which lie close to the border between those countries. Several Iran-backe
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The U.S. carried out airstrikes Sunday on buildings on the Iraq-Syria border that are believed to be used by Iranian-backed militia groups to carry out drone attacks targeting American personnel and facilities in Iraq.
In a statement, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said that President Joe Biden ordered the airstrikes. The facilities, he said, were being used by groups such as Kata ib Hezbollah and Kata ib Sayyid al-Shuhada.
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Washington, Jun 27 (EFE).- The United States military bombed positions of Iran-backed militias in Syria and Iraq on Sunday at the orders of President Joe Biden, the Pentagon reported.
US forces carried out “defensive precision airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region” on Sunday evening, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in a statement in which no casualties were mentioned.
The airstrikes were carried out against weapons storage and operations centers, two of them in Syria and one in Iraq.
“The targets were selected because these facilities are utilized by Iran-backed militias that are engaged in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks against US personnel and facilities in Iraq,” Kirby said.
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US Military Forces Airstrike Iran-backed Militia Facilities In Iraq And Syria
The US has carried out airstrikes against Iran-backed militia in Iraq and Syria, in response to drone attacks against US personnel and facilities in Iraq.
The US has carried out airstrikes against Iran-backed militia in Iraq and Syria, in response to drone attacks against US personnel and facilities in Iraq, the US Department of Defense said on Sunday.
In a statement, the Pentagon said, At President Biden s direction, US military forces earlier this evening conducted defensive precision airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region. The targets were selected because these facilities are utilized by Iran-backed militias that are engaged in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks against U.S. personnel and facilities in Iraq.
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near the border between Iraq and Syria. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said the militias were using the facilities to launch unmanned aerial vehicle attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq. Kirby said the U.S. military targeted three operational and weapons storage facilities two in Syria and one in Iraq.