One US contractor was killed and 5 servicemen had been wounded after an “Iranian” drone assault focused American amenities in northeastern Syria, Pentagon says.
(Reuters Archive)
The US army has stated it carried out precision air strikes in japanese Syria in response to a drone assault that killed one American contractor and injured 5 US service personnel.
A Department of Defense assertion stated on Thursday the US contractor had been killed and the others wounded “after a one-way unmanned aerial vehicle struck a maintenance facility on a Coalition base near Hasakah in northeast Syria.”
Another US contractor was additionally injured within the UAV assault, the Pentagon stated, including that the US intelligence neighborhood “assessed the UAV to be of Iranian origin.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stated that on the route of President Joe Biden, he had authorised “precision airstrikes tonight in eastern Syria against facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.”
“The air strikes were conducted in response to today’s attack as well as a series of recent attacks against Coalition forces in Syria by groups affiliated with the IRGC,” he added.
Hundreds of US troops are in Syria as a part of a coalition preventing towards remnants of the Daesh group and have often been focused in assaults by militia teams.
The US troops assist the YPG/PKK underneath the identify of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as a device to combat Daesh within the area.
PKK is listed as a international terrorist organisation by the US, the EU and regional powers.
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The Pentagon stated two of the service members injured on Thursday had been handled onsite, whereas the three different troops and one US contractor had been medically evacuated to Iraq.
“As President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing,” Austin stated.
When the strikes had been introduced, Biden had already travelled to Canada, the place he’s set to fulfill with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and tackle Parliament.
Last August, Biden ordered related retaliatory strikes within the oil-rich Syrian province of Deir Ezzor after a number of drones focused a coalition outpost, with out inflicting any casualties.
That assault got here the identical day that Iranian state media introduced a Revolutionary Guard normal had been killed days earlier whereas “on a mission in Syria as a military adviser.”
Iran says it has deployed its forces in Syria on the invitation of Damascus and solely as advisers.
The IRGC is the ideological arm of the Iranian army and is blacklisted as a terrorist group by the United States.
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