President Joe Biden has launched airstrikes on Syria in retaliation for an Iran-led attack that killed a United States contractor and injured six others.
On Thursday , the Pentagon disclosed that an unmanned aerial vehicle had struck a maintenance facility on a US Coalition base near Hasakah in northeast Syria about 1.40pm.
President Joe Biden then authorised precision airstrikes against Iranian facilities in Syria, used by groups associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The US Defense said the prevision strikes were intended to protect and defend its personnel and it took proportionate and deliberate action intended to limit the risk of escalation and minimise casualties.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said they were authorised by President Joe Biden to launch airstrikes on Syria. Picture: Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images"Our thoughts are with the family and colleagues of the contractor who was killed and with those who were wounded in the attack earlier today."
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