In retaliation for the death of three of its soldiers on Sunday on the Jordanian-Syrian border by pro-Iranian militias, the United States targeted 85 targets in Iraq and Syria overnight from Saturday to Sunday, killing around forty fighters .
Other strikes will follow, according to
“a schedule and locations”
chosen by Washington, the Pentagon announced.
As the remains of fallen soldiers returned to the United States – the first since the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7 – Joe Biden chose to strike America's enemies.
But he did so by warning them and reaffirming that the United States wanted neither escalation nor war against Iran, the sponsor of these paramilitary formations which for three months have attacked the last soldiers deployed in more than 160 times. Iraq.
During the five days that Joe Biden waited to respond, the pro-Iran militia had time to empty their bases on both sides of the border between Iraq and Syria.
Some…
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