The US Department of Defense said that before that, militants had attacked US facilities and contingent in Iraq.
“By decision of President Biden, the US military launched defensive pinpoint airstrikes tonight on targets used by Iraqi-supported militants near the Iraqi-Syrian border,” Kirby said.
According to him, the forces, in whose use were the fired objects, attacked the American military contingent in Iraq and American objects with the help of drones.
The strike hit work buildings and warehouses at two points in Syria and one in Iraq. Among the groups that, according to the US Department of Defense, used these objects are the Shiite groups Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhadaa.
Joe Biden first approved airstrikes against pro-Iranian targets in Syria in February. The Syrian Foreign Ministry called the attack a negative signal about the policies of the new US administration. Biden reacted to attacks on American targets in the same way that his predecessor Donald Trump did in such cases.
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