New Delhi:Oct 27,2023: U.S. President Joe Biden ordered strikes on two facilities in Syria after U.S. troops were attacked more than a dozen times in Iraq and Syria in the past week, the Pentagon said, warning that the U.S. will not tolerate attacks by Iran’s proxies. The U.S. suspects that Iran-backed groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah are behind the attacks. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said at the U.N. on Thursday that the U.S. will “not be spared from this fire” if Israel’s offensive against Hamas does not stop.
The U.S. military carried out strikes on Thursday against two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and groups it supports, the Pentagon said. “These precision self-defence strikes are a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups that began on October 17,” U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement.
