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SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for October 26, 2023 | SaltWireWASHINGTON -The U.S. military carried out strikes against two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and groups it backs, the Pentagon said on Thursday, in response to a spate of attacks against U.S. forces in both Iraq and Syria.
"These precision self-defense strikes are a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups that began on October 17," U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement."These Iranian-backed attacks against U.S. forces are unacceptable and must stop," Austin said in the statement.
The targets were weapons and munitions storage facilities, the official added, speaking late on Thursday to reporters in Washington. The United States 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.
During a false alarm at Al-Asad air base in Iraq last week, a civilian contractor died from cardiac arrest.
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