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The US military carried out precision airstrikes in Syria against facilities belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
WASHINGTON: The US military said it carried out precision airstrikes in eastern Syria on Thursday in response to a drone attack that killed one American contractor and injured five US service personnel. A department of defence statement said the US contractor had been killed and the others wounded “after a one-way unmanned aerial vehicle struck a maintenance facility on a coalition base near Hasakah in northeast Syria.”Defence secretary Lloyd Austin said he had authorised “precision airstrikes tonight in eastern Syria against facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
“The air strikes 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 IRGC,” he added.Hundreds of American troops are in Syria as part of a coalition fighting against remnants of the Islamic State group and have frequently been targeted in attacks by militia groups.
The US troops support the Syrian Democratic Forces , the Kurds’ de facto army in the area, which led the battle that dislodged IS from the last scraps of their Syrian territory in 2019.
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