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Five US soldiers were also injured. The Pentagon: “No group will attack our troops with impunity. We will take all necessary measures to defend our people.”
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In SyriaA US contractor was killed and five soldiers and another professional injured after a drone believed to be of Iranian origin struck a military base in the north-east of the country. The Pentagon reports this and attributes the attack to Tehran’s elite forces. As later announced by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin USA They responded with “targeted” raids during the night Syria East against facilities used by groups linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.” According to the NGO Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least eight pro-Iranian militiamen were killed in the American raids.
The drone The first attack, believed to be of Iranian origin, was launched around 2 p.m. local time on Thursday. The contractor was killed and more Americans injured “after an unmanned aerial vehicle struck a maintenance facility at a coalition base near Hasakah in northeastern Syria,” the defense ministry said in a statement. Another US contractor was also injured in the attack.
US retaliation Announcing the US night raids, Austin said, “The airstrikes were carried out in response to today’s attack as well as a number of recent attacks on coalition forces in Syria by IRGC-affiliated groups. As President Biden has made clear, we will take whatever steps necessary to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing,” the Secretary of Defense said.
Some wounded were transferred to Iraq “No group will attack our troops with impunity. Our thoughts are with the family and colleagues of the contractor who was killed and injured in today’s attack,” Austin said. Two wounded soldiers received on-site treatment while three other components and the US contractor were transferred to coalition medical facilities in Iraq.
NGO Syria: 8 pro-Iran militias killed in US raid At least eight pro-Iranian militants were killed in airstrikes carried out by US forces overnight. That writes the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. “The US raids targeted arms depots in the city of Deir Ezzor, where six pro-Iranian fighters were killed, two of whom were killed in attacks that hit the Moyadine Desert and the area around al-Boukamal,” writes the NGO .
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