Syria: US strikes at pro-Iranian militia facilities

Published on: 08/24/2022 – 08:31 The US military said on Tuesday that it had carried out strikes in Deir-Ezzor, Syria, against facilities used by groups affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, without specifying whether the attack resulted in casualties. The American army announced on Tuesday August 23 that it had bombed pro-Iranian militia bases in eastern Syria. These strikes took place in the province of Deir-Ezzor and targeted “infrastructure used by groups affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards”, said the spokesman for the central command of the American army in the Middle East, the Colonel Joe Buccino, in a statement. The Revolutionary Guard Corps, considered the Iranian regime’s ideological army, is on the US blacklist of “terrorist groups”. , to “defend and protect US forces from attacks such as those carried out on August 15 by groups supported by Iran”. Several drones then attacked an advanced base of the anti-jihadist coalition, according to the Americans who had not deplored any casualties. Colonel Bucino. The American forces “carried out this proportionate and deliberate operation to limit the risk of escalation and the risk of causing casualties”, he said. The American bombardment was not immediately confirmed by the media of Syrian state. Death of a general of a general of the Revolutionary GuardsHundreds of American soldiers are deployed in northeast Syria as part of the anti-jihadist coalition in charge of fighting, with their Kurdish allies Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the remnants of the Islamic State group. Tuesday’s bombardment came the same day as Iranian state media announced the death two days earlier of a al of the Revolutionary Guards, killed during a “mission” in Syria. No details were given on the circumstances of the death of the general, just described as a “defender of the sanctuary”, a term used to designate those who work on behalf of Iran in Syria or Iraq. Iran said to have deployed forces in Syria at the invitation of the regime in Damascus and simply as advisers. With AFP