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The US military announced that it targeted two facilities in Iraq for what it said were “militants supported by Iran” in response to the attacks on them. American bases in all of Syria And Iraq during the past weeks.
The US military said in a statement that the raid it launched yesterday evening, Tuesday, targeted two facilities in Iraq, and that the strikes “were a direct response to the attacks on American and coalition forces by Iran and Iranian-backed groups.”
The strikes announced by the US Army represent the first public American response in Iraq to dozens of attacks targeting its forces in the region since Operation Al-Aqsa flood On October 7 last.
Reuters quoted a US military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, as saying that the raid launched by fighter jets targeted and destroyed an operations center for the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades and a command and control center affiliated with it near Anbar and Jurf al-Saqr, south of Baghdad. The Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades is a powerful armed faction with close ties to Iran.
The official said that members of the Hezbollah Brigades were at the two sites, but an assessment was being made about the human losses.
Yesterday, Tuesday, American officials said that American forces were attacked at a base west of Baghdad, and that an American warplane responded in self-defense and killed a number of “militants supported by Iran,” as they put it.
In the same context, two American officials said that the Ain al-Asad air base was attacked by a close-range ballistic missile, causing 8 casualties and minor damage to the infrastructure.
So far, the United States’ response to the attacks on its forces in the region, which numbered more than 60 in Iraq and Syria, has been limited to 3 sets of separate strikes in Syria. This is the first time it has directed a strike against the armed factions in Iraq.
An armed group calling itself the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq” claimed responsibility for several attacks that targeted American bases in both Syria and Iraq.
American forces in the Middle East are facing escalating attacks with missiles and drones against the backdrop of their support for Israel in its war on… Gaza strip.
Washington blamed factions loyal to Iran, and announced air strikes targeting sites in Syria that the Pentagon said were “linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.”
But the Pentagon has repeatedly stressed that it is keen for the war in Gaza not to expand into a regional confrontation with Iran and the forces loyal to it.
About 2,500 American soldiers are deployed in Iraq and about 900 others in Syria.
