drone attacks on us forces by these iranian back militias since the beginning of 2021, they haven t been responses to all of them. why not this one. and how do you decide? it s just a matter of judgment really is to worry you re going. it s partly a function of ah what the group who the group was that struck what weapons they used how effective it was against us forces. what is the target list that we re keeping? how can we best deter future strikes? how closely are these strikes tied to iran? so the first strike used an iranian drone. these other strikes have used katyusha rockets. so there s just there s a marginal difference in the united states wants to deter an escalation. it doesn t want to let indiscriminate attacks continue. we do have defenses in place around these bases, but in
A rocket attack has reportedly hit Ain al-Asad Air Base in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, but there were no immediate reports of possible casualties.
Rocket attacks have separately targeted two military facilities which house American occupation forces in Syria’s northern provinces of Dayr al-Zawr and Hasakah.
Two Katyusha rockets target an area near the US embassy inside the highly secured Green Zone of Baghdad, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.