Rocket attacks on US forces in Syria, no casualties

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Rocket attacks on US forces in Syria

Washington: There was a rocket attack on American soldiers in eastern Syria on Monday, in which no casualties were reported. A day earlier, on Sunday, the US carried out airstrikes targeting “bases used by Iran-backed militia groups” near the border between Iraq and Syria. Iraq’s military condemned the US attacks and militia groups called for revenge on the US.

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said that these militia groups were using these bases to launch unmanned aerial attacks against US forces in Iraq. It was the second attack in the area by the administration led by US President Joe Biden. There was no indication that Sunday’s strikes were part of a broader and ongoing US air campaign in the border region. But Colonel Wayne Marotto, spokesman for the US military mission in Baghdad, wrote on Twitter Monday that at 7.44 a.m. (local time) there were “multiple rocket attacks on US forces in Syria.”

He said that no one was injured in these attacks and now the damage caused by them is being assessed. Moretto later retweeted that US forces fired cannon shells in self-defense when there was an attack in Syria. Kirby described the attacks on Iraq as “defensive”, saying the attacks were in response to “attacks by Iran-backed groups targeting US interests in Iraq”. The United States took necessary, appropriate, and deliberate action to reduce the risk of worsening of the situation and send a clear message to stop the attack.” The Pentagon said the targets were attacked by Iran-backed militias.

Navy Commander Jessica McNulty, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said on Monday that each attack hit the target and the US military was still assessing the outcome of the operation. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on Monday that Biden was very clear that the United States would take steps to protect American troops.

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