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Overnight the US struck 85 targets at seven facilities across Syria and Iraq as part of the retaliatory strikes in response to the deaths of three American soldiers.
The strikes, which Iraq condemned as a “new aggression against Iraq’s sovereignty”, reportedly killed 40 people. The US used over 125 precision munitions to strike command and control operation centres, intelligence centres, rockets and missiles and more used by Iran-backed militias.
The overnight strikes are the first of what is expected to be more strikes as a response to the three soldiers who were killed in Jordan in a drone attack by Iran-backed militants.
Iraq has warned that the strikes would only heighten tensions in the region where already the stakes are high.
“This aggressive strike will put security in Iraq and the region on the brink of the abyss, and it also contradicts efforts to establish the required stability,” an Iraq official said.
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Everything we know about the US strikes on Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq
The US military on Friday struck Iran-backed militants and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for a drone strike that killed three American troops in Jordan.
The US Central Command said American forces struck more than 85 targets at seven locations in both Middle Eastern countries using bombers and precision munitions, just hours after President Joe Biden received the remains of the three service members.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports:
US airstrikes in Syria killed civilians and soldiers
The airstrikes the US launched in Syria near the Iraq border killed an undetermined number of civilians along with soldiers, the Syrian state media said.
At least 18 members of the Iran-backed militias have been killed in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The US struck 26 sites in Syria connected to the Iranian-back militias overnight.
The Syrian defense ministry called the US’s attack “blatant air aggression.”
Iraqi militia official hints at de-escalation
An official from an Iranian-backed militia hinted at the desire to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East after the US launched retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria following the death of three American soldiers.
Hussein al-Mosawi, a spokesperson for Harakat al-Nujaba, one of the main Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, told The Associated Press that, “we do not wish to escalate or widen regional tensions.”
Mr Mosawi said that the targeted sites the US was striking in Iraq were “devoid of fighters and military personnel” but that “every action elicits a reaction.”
US shares video of B-1 bomber taking off amid airstrike launch
The US Central Command has released a video of a B-1 bomber taking off from the runway just as the military announced it was launching airstrikes against Ira-backed militias in retaliation for an attack that killed three US soldiers in Jordan.
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Everything we know about the US strikes on Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq
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Iran condemns American strikes in Middle East
Iran's foreign ministry on Saturday condemned overnight US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria as "violations of the sovereignty and territorial integrity" of the two countries.
Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani, in a statement, said the attacks represented "another adventurous and strategic mistake by the United States that will result only in increased tension in instability in the region".
Iraq warns Middle East on ‘brink of abyss'
Iraq has warned the Middle East is now on the “brink of the abyss” following US revenge strikes which killed 16 people loyal to Iran.
In a statement, Iraq condemned the strikes as a “new aggression against Iraq’s sovereignty” and warned the move would only heighten tension in the region.
It comes as the US conducted the large-scale retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria in response to the deaths of three American soldiers killed in a drone attack in Jordan by Iran-backed militants.
US launches airstrikes against Iranian forces and allied militias in Iraq and Syria
The US launched airstrikes against Iranian forces and allied militias in Iraq and Syria on Friday as it began its retaliation for a drone attack that killed three US soldiers in Jordan last week.
Dozens of strikes launched by long-range bombers flown from the the US targeted Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia groups just hours after president Joe Biden received the remains of the three service members at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
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