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America warned it might strike targets linked to Iran after three American troopers had been killed on Sunday.
The US army has launched airstrikes towards targets in Syria and Iraq within the first retaliation for a drone strike that killed three troopers at a distant US base in Jordan, US officers mentioned. confirmed later to the media.
US army sources mentioned seven areas between Iraq and Syria had been focused in Friday's strikes, Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan mentioned, reporting from the Pentagon.
Three US troopers had been killed and round 40 others injured in a drone strike close to the Jordanian-Syrian border on Sunday.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of teams linked to Iran, claimed duty for the drone assault.
“America had mentioned from the second the assault occurred that there could be a army response and American officers like Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin have mentioned that the response will are available in some ways. So this might effectively be the primary section , however these American retaliatory airstrikes have now begun,” Jordan mentioned.
“This is step one, I don't suppose it will likely be the final,” he added.
President Biden and different high US leaders have warned for days that the US would combat again, and made it clear that it might not be only a strike, however a “levelled response” over time.
On Thursday, the USA accepted retaliatory strikes towards Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria, in keeping with media experiences.
On Friday, Syrian state media reported that an “American aggression” on plenty of websites on the desert areas of Syria and the Syrian-Iraqi border resulted in plenty of casualties and accidents.
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