US Launches Retaliatory Strikes on Iran-Linked Targets in Iraq, Syria

The United States has begun its retaliation against Iran-backed groups in Iraq and Syria for their alleged involvement in an attack last week that killed three U.S. service members. U.S. forces conducted airstrikes against more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Quds Force, and affiliated militia groups, according to a statement released by U.S. Central Command, which oversees operations in the region. The strikes were conducted with “numerous aircraft to include long-range bombers flown from [the] United States” and “employed more than 125 precision munitions.” The retaliatory strikes will continue, President Joe Biden said in a statement, “at times and places of our choosing.”...