U.S. strikes Iranian-backed militia targets in Syria -- Pentagon
People's Daily Online
(Xinhua) 09:36, February 26, 2021
File photo taken on July 11, 2018 shows the Pentagon seen from an airplane over Washington, D.C., the United States. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that the U.S. military had conducted airstrikes against infrastructure utilized by Iranian-backed militant groups in eastern Syria.
"At President (Joe) Biden's direction, U.S. military forces earlier this evening conducted airstrikes against infrastructure utilized by Iranian-backed militant groups in eastern Syria," the Pentagon said in a statement.
"These strikes were authorized in response to recent attacks against American and Coalition personnel in Iraq, and to ongoing threats to those personnel," it said, adding the strikes destroyed multiple facilities located at a border control point used by a number of Iranian-backed militant groups.
The Pentagon called the operation a "proportionate military response" carried out after consultations with coalition partners.
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