The U.S. military early Friday carried out airstrikes against two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to the Pentagon.
The “precision self-defense strikes” were at the direction of President Joe Biden, and 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,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a statement.
