US carried out strikes against Iranian linked targets in Syria

12/11/2024 6:45

        The U.S. military said on Monday it had carried out strikes against nine targets associated with Iranian groups in Syria.
        
        In a statement, the U.S. military said the strikes were against two locations in Syria and a response to several attacks on U.S. personnel in Syria in the past 24 hours
        
        The U.S. has occasionally carried out strikes against targets linked to Iran in both Iraq and Syria. In February, the U.S. launched airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and militias it backs, in retaliation for a deadly attack on U.S. troops.
        
        "These strikes will degrade the Iranian backed groups' ability to plan and launch future attacks on U.S. and Coalitio
        forces," the U.S. military said after the most recent strikes.
        
        The U.S. has 900 troops in Syria, and 2,500 more in neighboring Iraq, on a mission to advise and assist local forces trying to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State, which in 2014 seized large swathes of both countries but was later defeated.