need to be a higher cost? they re not going to stop. this comes as proxy forces launched ten rockets in northeast syria earlier today. those attacks came from president biden ordered a series of retaliation strikes in response to a suspected iranian drone that killed a u.s. contractor and wounded six americans on thursday. all the breaking news in the past few minutes. our jennifer griffin following the late development from the pentagon. good evening, jen. reporter: tonight iranian forces fired more missiles based in eastern syria, near the oil fields. additional, u.s. forces received entries. we learned some may be serious and the pentagon is assessing its response. the u.s. does not seek conflict with iran but is prepared to respond forcefully to respect u.s. personnel. reporter: the iranian drone carried out an attack on a maintenance facility at a u.s. base shared with the kurdish defense forces in northeast syria, midday on thursday. a u.s. contractor was kill
more u.s. forces may have been injured as a result of these new rocket attacks in the past hour eastern syria. the pentagon is assessing the response. your thoughts on this and how dangerous the situation is. the one thing that these iranian proxies and malicious, this is now almost 80 attacks on american troops, service members and that region of the world and i think we responded three times connectically. you have to ask the question why is this administration taking a stronger step in response to these attacks? i certainly hope that we are and we ll be anxious to see as more information comes into this recent one. clearly what happened last night and the information we got