On Monday, the Pentagon announced that the US conducted three air strikes – two in Syria and one in Iraq, on the orders of the president Biden.
The Pentagon has stated that the early morning defensive precision air strikes were carried out on facilities along the Iraq-Syria border, which was used by Iran-backed militias to conduct drone attacks against American personnel and facilities in Iraq.
Seven milita members were killed in the air strike, a UK based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed.
The Pentagon spokesperson, John Kirby, said in a statement, “Several Iran-backed militia groups, including Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) and Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS), used these facilities.”
Kirby said that president Biden had directed further action to deter the attacks alleged by the US. The Biden administration already conducted air strikes against facilities used by Iran-backed groups on the Syrian side of the Iraq-Syria border.
He added, “Given the ongoing series of attacks by Iran-backed groups targeting U.S. interests in Iraq, the President directed further military action to disrupt and deter such attacks. We are in Iraq at the invitation of the Government of Iraq for the sole purpose of assisting the Iraqi Security Forces in their efforts to defeat ISIS.”
He said that the United States took necessary, appropriate, and deliberate action designed to limit the risk of escalation — but also to send a clear and unambiguous deterrent message.
“As a matter of international law, the United States acted pursuant to its right of self defense. The strikes were both necessary to address the threat and appropriately limited in scope,” said Kirby.
The Syrian Observatory has stated that seven militia members were killed. Although, the BBC reported Sana, Syrian state media, saying that three children were killed in the strikes.
The news of the strikes hold a huge significance at this point in time and in the Iran-U.
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S. relations. Earlier last week, Iran elected, Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner as President. And on Monday, Mr. Biden welcomed to the White House, the Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who happens to be a close ally of the US and a major rival of Iran.
The two will discuss negotiations for the US and Iran to re-engage in the Iran nuclear deal or the JCPOA (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), a move which has been opposed by Israel.