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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS carries out air strikes in Syria targeting Iranian backed militia structures
(CNN)The US military struck a site in Syria on Thursday used by two Iranian-backed militia groups following rocket attacks on American forces in the region in the past two weeks, according to a US official.
The strikes mark the military's first known action under President Joe Biden. The site was not specifically tied to the rocket attacks, but were believed to be used by Iranian-backed Shia militias operating in the region.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that the strikes took place "at President Biden's direction" and were authorized not just to respond to recent attacks against American and coalition forces, but to deal with "ongoing threats to those personnel."
Kirby said that Biden conducted the strikes after consulting with US allies, including coalition partners.
The strikes mark the military's first known action under President Joe Biden. The site was not specifically tied to the rocket attacks, but were believed to be used by Iranian-backed Shia militias operating in the region.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that the strikes took place "at President Biden's direction" and were authorized not just to respond to recent attacks against American and coalition forces, but to deal with "ongoing threats to those personnel."
Kirby said that Biden conducted the strikes after consulting with US allies, including coalition partners.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/us-iraq-iran/index.html
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US carries out air strikes in Syria targeting Iranian backed militia structures (Original Post)
Stinky The Clown
Feb 2021
OP
Do the Russians still have the ex-American base that Trump abandoned to them undamaged?
keithbvadu2
Feb 2021
#3
According to the 11 o'clock news, they dropped 7 500lb bombs on structures near . . . .
Stinky The Clown
Feb 2021
#5
walkingman
(7,628 posts)1. I'm personally tired of the US being the world's policeman.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)2. Just good god damned it!! What happened to diplomacy 1st??
This is not OK!! Not at all!! Only 6 weeks in!!
GD, GD, GD!!
Ms 7wo7rees
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)3. Do the Russians still have the ex-American base that Trump abandoned to them undamaged?
Do the Russians still have the ex-American base that Trump abandoned to them undamaged?
leftstreet
(36,109 posts)4. WTactualF
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)5. According to the 11 o'clock news, they dropped 7 500lb bombs on structures near . . . .
. . . . the Syria/Iraq border. Iran was known to use the structures to do incursions into Iraq.
As these things go, this seems a pretty surgical hit, and relatively small. That's not a lot of ordnance,
Seems to me this was a shot across Iran's bow as negotiations start on reentering the nuclear agreement.