The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend, according the the U.S. military and officials.
President Joe Biden and other top U.S. leaders had been warning for days that America would strike back at the militias, and they made it clear it wouldn’t be just one hit but a “tiered response” over time.
“This afternoon, at my direction, U.S. military forces struck targets at facilities in Iraq and Syria that the IRGC and affiliated militia use to attack U.S. forces,” Biden said in a statement. “Our response began today. It will continue at times and places of our choosing.”
The massive barrage of strikes by manned and unmanned aircraft hit more than 85 targets at seven locations, including command and control headquarters, intelligence centers, rockets and missiles, drone and ammunition storage sites and other facilities that were connected to the militias or the IRGC’s Quds Force, the Guard’s expeditionary unit that handles Tehran’s relationship and arming of regional militias.
U.S. Central Command said the strikes used more than 125 precision munitions, and they were delivered by numerous aircraft, including long-range bombers flown from the United States. One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the operation, said B-1 bombers were used.
The finding out phase has begun.
You finding out why you don’t have healthcare?
I mean, think about the sorry state of their democracy… in Russia you go to vote knpwing only one party can win, in the US you know only one of two quasi identical parties.
Only one of those parties wants me dead, but I guess if you view it from the perspective that minorities just don’t matter at all, I can see how you’d get confused.
I’d say that the fact that both parties want someone dead is the real problem - but what do I know about democracy, I’m just a poor european after all…
Most Europeans are also not particularly approving of trans folks tbqh. There’s a reason we emigrate to blue states across the ocean.
I dont see how it is related but good luck.
Do they have permission from the Iraqi government, which is after all supposed to be a friendly government? Or is this another case of sovereignty not mattering when it’s inconvenient for the US? (Won’t even bother asking about Syria.)
Oh, please. This sounds like sovcit shit.
