US strikes target elite Iranian forces and pro-Iranian groups in Iraq and Syria. Joe Biden had promised to “respond” after the death of three American soldiers in Jordan, struck by a drone attack.
“The airstrikes involved more than 125 precision munitions,” the US Middle East Command (Centcom) said in a statement. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) indicated that “at least 18 pro- Iranian fighters were killed” in eastern Syria, including five in Deir Ezzor.