The United States has
also used long-range bombers
from the US to strike targets of pro-Iranian militias in Syria and Iraq, as a response to the attacks in which three US soldiers were killed in recent days on the border between Jordan and Syria.
The American raids expected for days in response to the killing of three US soldiers in Jordan have arrived and will continue for days as part of a large-scale and multi-level response.
Joe Biden gave orders to attack Iran-affiliated and supported groups in Iraq and Syria, warning that "if America gets hit, it will retaliate."
News of the raids came first from Syria, with the Human Rights Observatory reporting the killing of six pro-Iranian fighters, including at least three non-Syrians, near Al-Mayadeen in eastern Syria , in attacks possibly carried out by the United States."
Soon the first rumors arrived in the US media which first confirmed the start of the American retaliation, then denied it.
Finally the official communication from the Pentagon arrived.
“The United States has hit elite Iranian units and militias allied with Tehran in raids carried out in Syria and Iraq,” announced the Central Command, Centcom, in a post on X, without providing the number of deaths.
The US strikes "successfully hit three facilities in Iraq and four in Syria".
The White House reports this, specifying that the raids lasted 30 minutes.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 18 pro-Iran militiamen were killed in Syria alone.
“US military forces struck more than 85 targets, with numerous aircraft including long-range bombers flown by the US,” Centcom added, noting that over 125 precision bombs and missiles were used in the raids.
The affected facilities included command and control centers, intelligence headquarters, rocket and missile depots, unmanned aerial vehicle depots, and ammunition supply chain and logistics facilities of militia groups and their Guard Corps Quds Force sponsors. Iranian Revolution who facilitated attacks against US and coalition forces." The US raids angered Iraq, which called them "a violation of territorial sovereignty." "We will not tolerate any more attacks," he thundered. Defense Secretary Austin, while Biden made it clear that the operation will last days.
"Our response will continue in the times and ways we decide", declared the commander-in-chief shortly after welcoming at Dover Air Force Base, in Delaware, the bodies of the three US soldiers killed in Jordan. The president and first lady Jill together with the head of the Pentagon Lloyd Austin and the chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CQ Brown, met the families of Sergeant William Jerome Rivers, of Sergeant Kennedy Ladon Sanders and Sergeant Breonna Alexsondria Moffett killed on Sunday in Jordan in a raid by the 'Islamic Resistance in Iraq' group.
The United States "does not want conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world. But - Biden warned - all those who want to harm us know this: if you harm an American, we will react".
Damascus: 'Stop the US occupation of Syrian territory'
The US occupation of Syrian territory "cannot continue": Damascus declared this today in the aftermath of US raids in retaliation for a drone attack that killed three American soldiers in Jordan.
Last night's attacks killed "a number of civilians and soldiers, injured others and caused significant damage to public and private property", the Syrian armed forces said in a statement, adding: "The occupation of parts of Syrian territory by US forces cannot continue."
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