US attacks two Syrian facilities after attacks by Iran-backed militia

Following attacks on US forces in the previous week, U.S. President Joe Biden issued an order for attacks on two installations in Syria. According to the Pentagon, and he issued a warning that if Iran’s proxies continued their attacks, the U.S. would take further action.

In the past week, U.S. forces have been attacked more than a dozen times in Iraq and Syria by terrorists that Washington believes are supported by Iran. Tehran supports Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The United States will “not be spared from this fire,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said at the UN on Thursday if Israel’s offensive against Hamas did not end.

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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 backs, 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.

“These Iranian-backed attacks against U.S. forces are unacceptable and must stop,” Austin said.

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Biden has sent a rare message  to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning Tehran against targeting U.S. personnel in the Middle East, the White House said earlier on Thursday.

Israel said on Friday military raids into Gaza were preparing “the next  stage of the operation”. Amid fears that a ground invasion of the Palestinian enclave could spark a wider Middle East conflict.

Israel has bombarded the densely populated Gaza Strip following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israeli communities. Israel says Hamas killed some 1,400 people including children. And took more than 200 hostages, some of them infants and older adults.

The Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry said on Thursday that 7,028 Palestinians had been killed in the retaliatory air strikes, including 2,913 children.