Republican lawmakers are criticizing the Biden administration’s response to attacks on American forces by Iran-backed militias in Syria, following an escalation of fighting in the Mideast country.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “needs to explain why he isn’t doing more to deter Iran,” said Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a hawkish conservative who has joined other Republicans in criticizing the administration’s response to an Iran-backed strike that killed an American contractor and wounded several U.S. soldiers in Syria last week.
The Iran-backed militias responded to the U.S. counterstrikes with fresh strikes of their own. The New York Times reported Friday that the militias carried out rocket and drone attacks on targets controlled by a U.S.-aligned coalition of forces in Syria, wounding another American in a development that sparked fears of a widening new war.
Mr. Biden said he had been informed that “Iranian-backed militant groups” had carried out an attack on “one of our facilities causing several American casualties.” “Indefensible that American life must be lost before Joe Biden acts. Had he responded in force to dozens of earlier Iranian attacks, this tragedy could have been prevented,” Mr. Cotton tweeted Friday.
Mr. Austin, meanwhile, has emphasized that U.S. forces in Syria are prepared to carry out counter-strikes in Syria.
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