Strikes inside his country. Iraq today has almost become another province of iran today. You are right. U. S. Force coofs easily strike in iraq and there are 2500 u. S. Troops based in iraq. Also you have some up north with the kurds in irbeal. This decision to strike is based on the map as you showed geography. Not going to have the civilian cawrkteds. Hardware done early in the morning when nobody was likely there. If you want to start killing forces probably start hitting a barracks not a weapons depot. Brian exactly. We have hit iraq before and they can protest. If they are not going to control the militias and aim at us, we are not really asking for permission. Lucas, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Check in with you next hour. Meanwhile, where does the time go in the second hour of fox friends starts right now. I will go downstairs. Steve it is 7 00 on the east coast and a fox news alert. Right now we are 36 hours into an allout manhunt in maine for 40yearold robert card. He is th
Its on again. More shelling in gaza. The Israeli Defense forces saying theyre expanding Ground Operations as we speak. Is this the start of a ground water . Welcome. Im neil cavuto on a very busy day and now night. Its about 11 00 p. M. In israel as we speak. Lets go to trey yingst in southern israel. Trey . Good afternoon, neil. As we speak, the real military is shelling and striking the gaza strip the past several hours. They have ramped up strikes on the northern part of gaza. This is the heaviest that we have seen the israeli response since this war erupted 21 days ago. Weve seen the israelis using tanks along the border. According to israels spokesman, this is being considered you can hear the artillery going out there in to gaza, this is being considered an expanded raid in to the strip. Theyre stopping short of calling this the Ground Operation that everyone is anticipating. But the amount of fighting along the border is significant. Weve heard Machine Gun Fire in the distance.
We are in jerusalem. It is day 21 of the war between israel and hamas. We are covering Breaking News. We were notified about an our ago that the United States has struck targets, airstrikes in syria. What they are saying is the two facilities were near abu come all syria. According to a senior u. S. Defense official they say one was a Weapons Storage Facility and the other was an ammo storage area. These are in syria, not iran. The strike back, of course, does not have anything to do the Administration Says with what is happening between israel and hamas. What it has to do with is the proxy groups of iran targeting u. S. Forces at these military installations in syria and iraq. There have been 16 of these attacks in the last eight days. In those attacks at least 21 servicemembers were wounded in some capacity. Most of them were minor, but some of those are temporary brain injuries. That is a big concern. Today, the United States struck back. Our or two of our breaking News Coverage. Le
That italy Border Patrol agents are now on the ground to aid in the hunt for robert carr. The suspect in wednesday nights deadly Mass Shooting at a pair of locations in lewiston, maine, that left 18 people dead. But its not just my hometown, its my neighbor. You know, i mean, its its crazy. I have a neighbor that did something really horrible. Devastating story. Well keep an eye on it for you. And welcome in, everybody. Im kevin cork. Hey, kevin. Im griff jenkins. Were also keeping a close eye on the middle east. U. S. Fighter jets striking iran linked sites in syria a short while ago in retaliation for attacks on american troops in the middle east. The strikes followed 19 attacks on u. S. Bases in iraq and syria. Thats injured at least 21 u. S. Personnel. We kick things off tonight in israel, where fox news correspondent Lucas Thomson is standing by with the latest on these u. S. Airstrikes in syria. Good evening, lucas. Getting in grief at President Bidens direction. The pentagon lau
Our message to any country or group thinking about trying to take advantage of the situation to widen the conflict is dont. Dont do it. Dont. Dont. Dont. Dont. Just one word, dont. Sandra american officials have repeatedly talked to iran urging it to not widen the conflict. Action has been taken to back up the threats. Gaza seeing some of the most extensive airstrikes yet and that is developing at this hour. Welcome, hello, everyone, sandra smith in new york. John john roberts in washington. Pressure is growing for President Biden to respond to the 20 rocket and Drone Attacks against our troops in iraq and syria in the past ten days. And late last night, the pentagon says it did just that, bombing two military sites in Eastern Syria used by iranianbacked militias. Sandra the fighting between the u. S. And iran comes as massive explosions have rocked gaza all morning. Heaviest fighting they have seen in the this violent threeweek war. John Fox Team Coverage over the next two hours and t