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On Thursday, following media reports that the US had carried out an airstrike against “Iran-backed” assets on Syrian territory, the US Department of Defense confirmed the information, saying that airstrikes were conducted in response to recent attacks in Iraq.
According to the DoD statement, multiple facilities that had been used by these terrorist groups, such as Kata’ib Hezbollah and Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, were destroyed.
“At President Biden’s direction, US military forces earlier this evening conducted airstrikes against groups in eastern Syria. These strikes were authorized in response to recent attacks against American and Coalition personnel in Iraq, and to ongoing threats to those personnel”, the statement read.
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Joe Biden has carried out his first military action as president, with airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed fighters in Syria, in what the Pentagon said was retaliation for a rocket attack in Iraq earlier this month that killed one civilian contractor and wounded a US service member and other coalition troops.
The overnight strikes killed 22 people after hitting three trucks loaded with munitions near the border town of Abu Kamal, a war monitor said on Friday. Border posts used by Iranian militia groups were also destroyed, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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