The US has conducted strikes against five facilities tied to an Iran-backed militia group in Iraq and Syria, saying the group targeted Americans
The strikes, announced Sunday, are the first significant military response in retaliation for those attacks, which have injured numerous American military personnel.The group is known as Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-sponsored Shia militia group.Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman described the strikes as"precision defensive strikes" that"will degrade" the group's ability to conduct future attacks against coalition forces.
The Pentagon said those locations included weapon storage facilities and command and control locations that the group uses"to plan and execute attacks on OIR coalition forces."Read MoreAmerican officials have blamed the group for such attacks like the one on Friday on a base near Kirkuk, Iraq, that killed a US civilian contractor and injured four other US service members.The Pentagon's Hoffman repeated assertions that this group has links to Iranian forces.
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