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U.S. Central Command says overnight, the U.S. struck targets belonging to groups affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Syria's Deir ez Zor.
U.S. Central Command says overnight, the U.S. struck targets belonging to groups affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Syria's Deir ez Zor.
The U.S. used 8 manned fighter jets, four F-15s and four F-16s, to strike 9 targets with guided munitions. Just shy of 24hrs later, the U.S. is said to have conducted a 2nd round of airstrikes, with Apache gunships, at 7:20pm local time in Syria.
Comes after Iranian backed groups responded to the U.S. airstrike yesterday with rocket attacks. Tit for tat escalation like this can escalate quite quickly. Something to watch.
U.S. hits Iran-backed group in third day of violence in eastern Syria - local sources
Icymi - President Biden submits a War Powers Resolution (WPR) notification to Congress on the recent US strikes in Syria.
They have killed 44 residents and aide workers. ISIS has depended mainly on women and children, as real resources related directly to the ISIS leaders, to maintain the ISIS extremist ideology and spread it in the camp," the statement added.
BREAKING: @CENTCOM says successful airstrike in northern #Syria killed Abu 'Ala - a top 5 ISIS leader & the deputy leader of ISIS in Syria Strike also killed Abu Mu'Ad al-Qahtani, described as an ISIS official in charge of prisoner affairs
Syrian troops clash, expel US forces from village in oil-rich Hasakah
Rocket fire targets US forces in Syria