Two of the drones were taken down by the sites air defenses, but one got through. Less than an hour later at 11:23 pm local time, three drones targetted Green Village. service member, who was described as in stable condition. At 10:39 pm local time on March 24, rockets hit Mission Support Site Conoco, injuring one U.S. military officials said there were three more attacks. According to CENTCOM, the rockets missed Green Village by around 5 kilometers and caused “significant damage” to a local house and injured four civilians, including two children. The first of those four took place at Green Village, in northeastern Syria at 8:05 am local time March 24, the U.S. Iranian-backed groups retaliated with four attacks on U.S. “The United States took proportionate and deliberate action intended to limit the risk of escalation and minimize casualties.” “These precision strikes are intended to protect and defend U.S. forces are in Syria assisting local groups in the battle against ISIS militants. launched the airstrikes not only because of the casualties suffered March 23, but because that incident was part of a “series of recent attacks against coalition forces in Syria by groups affiliated with the IRGC,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. “Be prepared for us to act forcefully to protect our people,” Biden said in Ottawa March 24. The Pentagon said the F-15s took off from a base in the CENTCOM region but did not specify exactly which one. More than 12 hours after the attack, two F-15E Strike Eagles assigned to Air Forces Central (AFCENT) launched a nighttime strike against two “IRGC-affiliated facilities” in eastern Syria at around 2:40 am, which Biden later described as sites used for munitions storage and command and control. Biden ordered the air strikes, which the Pentagon called a “proportionate” response. personnel while aboard Air Force One on his way to Canada, U.S. President Joe Biden was briefed on the attack on U.S. intelligence officials said the drone was made in Iran and launched by a group sponsored by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The one-way drone strike hit a facility in Hasakah, Syria at 1:38 p.m. The March 23 militia attack that killed a U.S. Unfortunately, what you see in this situation are these Iranian-backed groups-not only in Syria but conducting operations in the Strait of Hormuz, in the Gulf, in Iraq-conducting destabilizing operations that are meant to export terror and instability.” “Our focus in Syria is on the enduring defeat of ISIS. “We don’t seek conflict or war with Iran,” Pentagon Press Secretary Patrick S. troops in Syria around 80 times since the start of 2021, according to American accounts. blames on Iran-backed groups in Iraq and Syria.
Aftermath of us drone strike series#
The militia attacks are the latest in an escalating series of drone and missile strikes the U.S. contractor in northeastern Syria the previous day, the Pentagon said. Air Force stuck two Iranian-backed militia sites in Syria early on the morning of March 24 local time, responding to a drone attack that killed a U.S.
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