These bombings are in response to a drone strike on Thursday that also injured 6 Americans.
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 24/03/2023 at 04:41, updated 24/03/2023 at 05:34
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Several hundred US soldiers are in Syria as part of a coalition fighting what remains of the Islamic State terrorist militia. DELIL SOULEIMAN
US forces conducted “precision airstrikes” in eastern Syria after a drone strike that killed one American and wounded six others, the Pentagon announced on Thursday evening, March 23.
The drone strike took place around 1:38 p.m. (10:38 GMT) Thursday against a maintenance facility at a base near Hasakah in northeastern Syria, the Pentagon said in a statement. US intelligence services consider the drone to be of “Iranian origin,” the Pentagon added. The deceased is an American contractor and the injured are five servicemen and another contractor who are also Americans, according to the same source.
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“I have authorized US Central Command forces to conduct precision air strikes in eastern Syria tonight against facilities used by groups affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps,” said Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in a statement. “The airstrikes were carried out in response to today’s attack, as well as a series of recent attacks on coalition forces in Syria by groups affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard Corps,” he said.
Several hundred American soldiers are in Syria as part of a coalition fighting what remains of the Islamic State (IS) group. They are frequently attacked by militias. US troops are supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Kurds’ de facto army in the region that led the fight that pushed ISIS out of the last areas it controlled in Syria in 2019.