US strikes against pro-Iranian militias in Syria – Le Figaro

The bombings targeted infrastructure in the province of Deir Ezzor, used by the Revolutionary Guards present in the region. US President Joe Biden on Tuesday August 23 ordered airstrikes targeting pro-Iranian militia bases in the east of Syria, announced the American army. These strikes took place in the province of Deir Ezzor and targeted “infrastructure used by the Guards of the Revolution”, linked to the Iranian regime, said the spokesman of the command U.S. Army Middle East Central Col. Joe Buccino, in a statement. The Revolutionary Guard Corps, considered the Iranian regime’s ideological army, is on the US blacklist of “terrorist groups”. aim according to Colonel Buccino to “defend and protect American forces from attacks such as those carried out on August 15 by groups supported by Iran”. Several drones then attacked a forward base of the anti-jihadist coalition, according to the Americans, who had no casualties. Colonel Bucino. US forces had planned to bomb 11 of the 13 bunkers in the compound but halted strikes on two of them after groups of people were seen in their vicinity, he added. According to an initial assessment no one was killed, he said. “The United States does not seek conflict”The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), a London-based NGO with A wide network of sources in Syria, meanwhile, said on Wednesday that six fighters guarding the targeted targets had been killed in the strikes. Their nationality could not be determined immediately, added the OSDH, stressing that Afghan Shiite fighters supported by Iran were among the groups operating in the region. “The United States does not seek conflict but will continue to take the necessary measures to protect and defend our people,” Colonel Bucino said in the Centcom statement. eliminated from the battlefield” The US bombardment was not immediately confirmed by Syrian state media. Hundreds of American soldiers are deployed in northeastern Syria as part of the anti-jihadist coalition responsible for fighting, with their Kurdish allies from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the remnants of the Islamic State (IS) group. Tuesday’s bombardment came the same day Iranian state media announced on Sunday the death of a Revolutionary Guards general killed during a “mission” in Syria. was given on the circumstances of the death of the general, just described as a “sanctuary defender”, a term used to refer to those who work on behalf of Iran in Syria or Iraq. Iran says it deployed forces to Syria at the invitation of the Damascus regime and merely as advisers. Arms depots and a training camp for pro-Iranian militia fighters are among the targets, the OSDH said.