US hits Iranian targets in eastern Syria

KABUL (Pajhwok): US fighter jets have carried out strikes against two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and groups it backs, according to a media report on Friday.

Reuters quoted the Pentagon saying, in response to a spate of attacks against US forces in both Iraq and Syria.

As tensions soar over the Israel-Hamas conflict, US and coalition troops have been attacked at least 19 times in Iraq and in Syria by Iran-backed forces in the past week.

“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.

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