Hello. Im kris jansing and there is Breaking News at this hour. The u. S. Military announcing it launched two air strikes on two locations over Eastern Syria used by iran guard and troops. The defense secretary said the launches were against ongoing iranian backed Militia Groups that began just over a week ago. In those instances militants used drones and rockets to attack multiple u. S. Installations in the region. The pentagon said those attacks left 21 americans with minor injuries, one u. S. Contractor die of a cardiac event. Now, there is a precedent here. The u. S. Has launched similar air strikes in Syria Including Last march when another u. S. Contractor was killed by a Militia Drone in syria. Defense secretary Austin Describeded the overnight launches as, quote, selfdefense and in a statement called them separate and distinct from the hamas conflict. But of course iran is a backer of hamas. All of it putting u. S. Forces in a delicate position, trying to protect personnel whil
Militia groups. That began just over a week ago. Now, in those instances, militants used drones and rockets to attack multiple u. S. Installations in the region. The pentagon says those attacks left 21 americans with minor injuries, one u. S. Contractor died of a cardiac van. There is a precedent here. The u. S. Has launched similar airstrikes in syria, including last march, when another u. S. Contractor was killed by a Militia Drone in syria. Defense Secretary Austin described the overnights strikes as quote, selfdefense. And in his statement, called them separate and distinct from the israel hamas conflict. But of course, iran is a backer of hamas. All of it putting u. S. Forces in a delicate position, trying to protect personnel while avoiding a larger war in the middle east. As Secretary Austin put it in his statement, quote, if attacks by irans proxies against the u. S. Forces continue, we will not hesitate to take further necessary measures to protect our people. Lets go right no
the white house. you are well placed to walk us through what moscow is saying and how this all unfolded. these threats from the defense ministry in moscow seem pretty real. what s your take? in the past russia has said that the so-called deconfliction line is closed when they have continued tahave phone calls. this is basically a hot line between two air force colonels making sure that russian jets and coalition jets, many of which are u.s. jets don t have any problems when they re both fighting isis over syria. what happened today the escalation all in response to the u.s. shooting down a syrian regime plane. just earlier this month, they shot down a syrian regime or a regime-backed militia drone. the fact that this was an s u22 fighter aircraft. that is a significant escalation. they did warn the russians ahead of time saying, hey, we re going to do this. let the syrians know. get out of that area. stop attacking our allied forces, the sdf. the syrian democratic forces.