The alleged motive was an “Iranian” drone attack on its illegal forces in the Arab country
sputnik The US Department of Defense announced on Thursday that it had ordered airstrikes on targets in eastern Syria after a suspected Iranian drone struck a coalition base housing US forces.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, in a Pentagon statement, noted that the attacks were carried out against “facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)”.
“Like the President [Joe] Biden has made it clear that we will take whatever steps necessary to defend our men and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing,” Austin said in a quote that accompanied the statement. “No group will attack our troops with impunity. “
The Pentagon statement said one US contractor was killed and five US soldiers and one other contractor injured after a “unidirectional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) struck a maintenance facility at a coalition base near Hasakah in northeastern Syria.”
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It was later determined by US intelligence officials that the drone was “of Iranian origin.” Further details on how officials reached this conclusion were not available.
In addition, it was reported that two of the wounded soldiers were treated “on the spot,” while another four were “medically evacuated to coalition medical facilities in Iraq.”
The US is illegally holding a contingent of about 900 troops in Syria, with troops stationed in the wartorn Arab country’s oilrich northern provinces. US forces remain in Syria without permission from Damascus or a mandate from the UN Security Council.
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