This exchange threatens to upend recent efforts to deescalate tensions across the wider Middle East.
A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded five American troops and another contractor in northeast Syria, the Pentagon said. American forces said they retaliated soon after with"precision airstrikes" in Syria targeting facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard, with activist groups saying they killed at least four people.
"The airstrikes 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 Revolutionary Guard, Austin said. Overnight, videos on social media purported to show explosions in Syria's Deir el-Zour, a strategic province that borders Iraq and contains oil fields. Iran-backed militia groups and Syrian forces control the area, which also has seen suspected airstrikes by Israel in recent months allegedly targeting Iranian supply routes.
A separate American strike hit a military post near the town of Boukamal along the border with Iraq, killing another three fighters, the Observatory said.Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been suspected of carrying out attacks with bomb-carrying drones across the wider Middle East.
U.S. Army Gen. Michael"Erik" Kurilla, the head of the American military's Central Command, warned that American forces could carry out additional strikes if needed."We are postured for scalable options in the face of any additional Iranian attacks," Kurilla said in a statement. Qatar's foreign minister also spoke around the same time with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian."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 said."No group will strike our troops with impunity."
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