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The US intelligence community assessed the unmanned attack drone to be of Iranian origin. The military said it could further intensify already tense relations between Washington and Tehran.
The US military carried out several airstrikes on Thursday (US time) against Iran-aligned groups in Syria. The attacks came hours after a US contractor was killed. While five US soldiers and another were injured after a deadly drone attack carried out by contractor groups. Both the attack on US personnel and the retaliation were disclosed by the Pentagon at the same time on Thursday night. It said the attack on US personnel took place at around 1:38 p.m. (1038 GMT) Thursday at a base near Hasakah in northeastern Syria.
The US intelligence community assessed the unmanned attack drone to be of Iranian origin. The military said it could further intensify already tense relations between Washington and Tehran. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the retaliatory strikes were carried out at the direction of President Joe Biden and targeted facilities used by groups affiliated with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). ). Austin said in a statement that the airstrikes were in response to today’s attack, as well as a series of recent attacks on coalition forces in Syria by IRGC-linked groups. He said: “No group will brazenly attack our soldiers.
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