The United States said the targets of the strikes were, among other things, bases and weapons depots used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and its allies.
The United States has carried out several airstrikes in Syria and Iraq on Friday in response to last week’s drone strike in Jordan.
U.S. forces struck more than 85 targets used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and its allies, the U.S. Middle East Command (Centcom) said. In the X message service.
According to Centcom, the attacks were carried out, among other things, on command and intelligence centers and objects intended for the storage of rockets, missiles and drones.
Last Sunday, armed groups backed by Iran carried out a drone attack on a US outpost in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border.
The drone attack killed three US soldiers and injured several dozen. After the drone strike, the President of the United States Joe Biden swore the country would respond to the blow.
Biden said the backlash would continue
US President Joe Biden confirmed that he had ordered the country’s military strikes in Iraq and Syria.
– Our counterattacks started today. They will continue at the times of our choosing in the places of our choosing, Biden said as published by the White House in the statement.
Biden reiterated that the United States is not seeking conflict in the Middle East.
– But for the information of all who seek to harm us: if you harm an American, we will respond, Biden said in a statement.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an organization monitoring the war in Syria, said that at least 18 fighters belonging to groups supported by Iran were killed in the US strikes in eastern Syria on Friday.
The Syrian state media also said that the attacks had caused several victims, without however giving more precise numbers of possible dead or injured.
Sources: Reuters, AFP, AP, STT