US President Joe Biden ordered strikes on two facilities in Syria after U.S. troops were attacked more than a dozen times in Iraq and Syria in the past week, the Pentagon said.
New Delhi: U.S. President Joe Biden ordered strikes on two facilities in Syria after U.S. troops were attacked more than a dozen times in Iraq and Syria in the past week, the Pentagon said, warning that the U.S. will not tolerate attacks by Iran’s proxies. The U.S. suspects that Iran-backed groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah are behind the attacks. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said at the U.N. on Thursday that the U.S. will “not be spared from this fire” if Israel’s offensive against Hamas does not stop.
The U.S. military carried out strikes on Thursday against two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and groups it supports, the Pentagon said. “These precision self-defense strikes are a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups that began on October 17,” U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement.
“These Iranian-backed attacks against U.S. forces are unacceptable and must stop,” Austin said. Biden has sent a rare message to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning Tehran against targeting U.S. personnel in the Middle East, the White House said earlier on Thursday.
Israel said on Friday that it was preparing “the next stage of the operation” in Gaza, amid fears that a ground invasion of the Palestinian enclave could spark a wider Middle East conflict. Israel has pounded the densely populated Gaza Strip following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israeli communities. Israel says Hamas killed some 1,400 people including children, and took more than 200 hostages, some of them infants and older adults.
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