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US strikes near Syria-Iraq border kill 5 militia fighters: monitor
US strikes on eastern Syria near the border with Iraq killed at least five Iran-backed militia fighters, a war monitor reported on Monday.
“At least 5 Iran-backed Iraqi militia fighters were killed and several others were wounded in an attack by US warplanes” on the Syrian side of the frontier, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The war monitor, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria to collect information, said that military positions were among the targets hit.
Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said one child had been killed, and that at least three other people were wounded.
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The Pentagon said that it had conducted airstrikes targeting ‘two locations in Syria and one location in Iraq’. AFP
US raid near Iraq-Syria border ‘targeted Iran-backed groups’
Mon, 28 June 2021
The Pentagon announced on June 27 it had conducted targeted air strikes against “facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups” on the Iraq-Syria border, which it said were authorised by President Joe Biden following ongoing attacks on US interests.
“At President Biden’s direction, US military forces earlier this evening conducted defensive precision air strikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in a statement.
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