US strikes in Syria bombs in eastern Syria claimed the lives of at least eight pro-Iranian rebels, according to a war monitor. Washington had announced the assaults a day earlier in retaliation to attacks on US personnel.
Following the raids late on Sunday on the Mayadeen and Albu Kamal areas of Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that “eight pro-Iran fighters dead, including at least one Syrian, and Iraqi nationals” were the casualties.
The US military has attacked sites in Syria it claimed were connected to Iran, which Washington accuses of supporting a number of armed organizations responsible for an increase in attacks on American soldiers in the Middle East, for the third time in less than three weeks.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement that “today, US military forces conducted precision strikes on facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran-affiliated groups in response to continued attacks against US personnel in Iraq and Syria.”
“A training facility and a safe house near the cities of Albu Kamal and Mayadeen, respectively, were the targets of the strikes,” he stated.
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