WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered air strikes in eastern Syria targeting “ installations used by Iranian- backed regulars ”, a US military spokesperson said.
The strikes in oil painting-rich Deir Ezzor fiefdom “ targeted structure installations used by groups combined with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ”, Central Command( Centcom) spokesperson Colonel Joe Buccino claimed in a statement.
Buccino said the “ perfection strikes are intended to defend and cover US forces from attacks like the bones
on August 15 against US labor force by Iran- backed groups ”, when a number of drones targeted an village of US- ledanti-jihadist forces without causing any casualties.
Tuesday’s air strikes hit nine cellarages in a complex used for security storehouse and logistics, the colonel told CNN independently.
Tehran says it has stationed forces in Syria at the assignation of Damascus and only as counsels
The US service had firstly intended to hit 11 of 13 cellarages in the complex but called off strikes on two after groups of people were seen near them, he said, adding an original assessment indicated no bone
had been killed.
US forces “ took commensurate, deliberate action intended to limit the threat of escalation and minimise the threat of casualties ”, the Centcom statement said.
“ The United States doesn’t seek conflict, but will continue to take necessary measures to cover and defend our people. ” Hundreds of American colors are stationed in Syria’s northeast as part of a coalition concentrated on fighting remnants of the militant Islamic State group.
There was no immediate evidence of the US strikes from Syrian state media.
before, Iranian state media said a Revolutionary Guard general “ who was on a charge in Syria as a military counsel ” had been killed on Sunday.
The reports didn’t say how the general was killed, only describing him as a “ protector of the sanctuary ”, a term used for those who work on behalf of Iran in Syria or Iraq.
Iran says it has stationed its forces in Syria at the assignation of Damascus and only as counsels.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is the ideological arm of the Iranian service and is blacklisted as a “ terrorist ” group by the United States.
The Britain- grounded Syrian overlook for Human Rights on Wednesday said the strikes killed six fighters that were guarding the targeted installations.
The examiner, which relies on a wide network of sources in Syria, said it couldn’t incontinently determine the ethnicities of those killed.
It said that Iran- backed Afghan Shia fighters are among the groups operating in the region.
Arms depots and a training camp for Iran- backed host fighters were among the targets hit, according to the examiner.
