The strikes reportedly targeted two storage facilities owned by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The US has 900 troops in Syria on a mission to advise and assist local forces trying to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State.
A total of 21 US forces have suffered minor injuries, the vast majority of them traumatic brain injuries. The strikes took place at roughly 4.30am local time today in Syria near Abu Kamal, a Syrian town on the border with Iraq, and were carried out by two F-16 fighter jets using precision munitions, a senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said.
President Biden has sent a rare message to Iran’s supreme leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning Tehran against targeting US personnel in the Middle East, the White House said earlier yesterday. “What we want is for Iran to take very specific actions, to direct its militias and proxies to stand down,” a senior US defence official said.Last week off the coast of Yemen, a US warship shot down more than a dozen drones and four cruise missiles fired by Iranian-backed Houthis.
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