Joe Biden recently ordered US troops to conduct airstrikes against the Iranian-backed groups in Syria, after a week several US rockets landed at a military base in Syria housing the troops.
Col. Joe Buccino, a representative of Central Command said, "At President Biden's direction, US military forces conducted precision airstrikes in Deir ez-Zor Syria today. "These precision strikes are intended to defend and protect US forces from attacks like the ones on August 15 against US personnel by Iran-backed groups," CNN reported.
‘You cannot act with impunity against our people, partners’
President Joe Biden said on Friday that a U.S. airstrike against an Iranian-backed militia in eastern Syria, the first since he took office, should be seen by Iran as a warning.
Asked what the message was from the air strike, Mr. Biden said: “You can’t act with impunity.”
“Be careful,” he added, speaking in Houston during a tour of relief efforts after a huge winter storm in Texas.
Syria and Iran on Friday condemned the attack with Damascus calling it a “bad sign” from the new Biden administration and Tehran saying it would further destabilise the region.