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U S airstrike against Iranian-backed militants in Syria was a message from Biden What comes next?
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U S airstrike against Iranian-backed militants in Syria was a message from Biden What comes next?
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25 Feb 2021
President Joe Biden ordered his first military airstrikes on Thursday, targeting “multiple facilities” used by by Iranian-backed militia groups in eastern Syria, according to the Pentagon.
The strikes were in response to recent attacks against American and U.S.-led Coalition personnel in Iraq and to “ongoing threats” to those personnel, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in a statement Thursday evening.
“At President Biden’s direction, U.S. military forces earlier this evening conducted airstrikes against infrastructure utilized by Iranian-backed militant groups in eastern Syria,” Kirby said, adding:
These strikes were authorized in response to recent attacks against American and Coalition personnel in Iraq, and to ongoing threats to those personnel. Specifically, the strikes destroyed multiple facilities located at a border control point used by a number of Iranian-backed militant groups, including Kait’ib Hezbollah (KH) and Kait’ib Sayyid al-
Joe Biden orders FIRST military attack of presidency as US carries out revenge airstrike on Iran-backed militia in Syria
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Biden’s Pentagon Defends Syria Strikes Questioned by Democrats Bloomberg 2/26/2021 Jordan Fabian, Tony Capaccio and Peter Martin © Photographer: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby speaks to the press as he waits for incoming US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC on January 22, 2021.
(Bloomberg) The Biden administration defended its decision to carry out airstrikes in eastern Syria overnight, saying the sites it hit are connected to Iranian-backed groups believed to be involved in recent attacks in Iraq.
“We’re confident that these were legitimate targets utilized by groups associated with these recent attacks,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in a briefing on Friday. The strikes sent an “unambiguous message” that “we will defend ourselves, that we will protect our interests. We are certainly going to act to defend our people.”