The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iran backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed US troops in Jordan last weekend.
The massive barrage of strikes hit more than 85 targets at seven locations, including command and control headquarters, intelligence centres, rockets and missiles, drone and ammunition storage sites and other facilities that were connected to the militias or the IRGC’s Quds Force, the Guard’s expeditionary unit that handles Tehran’s relationship with and arming of regional militias. And President Joe Biden made it clear in a statement that there will be more to come.
The U.S. strikes appeared to stop short of directly targeting Iran or senior leaders of the Revolutionary Guard Quds Force within its borders, as the US tries tom prevent the conflict from escalating even further. Iran has denied it was behind the Jordan attack.
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