As Three US Troops Were Injured In An Incident An Hour Earlier, Biden Orders A Strike In Iraq.

Following an Iran-aligned group’s one-way drone attack earlier in the day that critically injured one US serviceman and injured two more, officials said that the US military launched retaliation airstrikes in Iraq on Monday.
The back-and-forth argument served as the most recent illustration of how the Israel-Hamas conflict is spreading throughout the Middle East and causing unrest that has made US troops stationed in bases in Syria and Iraq targets.

Groups in Syria and Iraq that support Iran reject Israel’s Gaza campaign and blame the US in part for it.
The US military launched the strikes in Iraq at 1:45 GMT on President Joe Biden’s orders, ostensibly killing “several Kataib Hezbollah group” and demolishing several of the group’s infrastructure, according to the US military.

“The goal of these operations is to weaken the capacity of those parties to carry out more attacks on coalition forces in Syria and Iraq and to hold them directly accountable. The commander of US Central Command, General Michael Erik Kurilla, declared in a statement, “We will always defend our forces.”