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US strikes on Iraq, Syria drive fears of regional escalation from Gaza war Al Jazeera English Source link
12:06 a.m. ET, February 3, 2024 It’s morning in the Middle East. Here’s what we know about the US military’s strikes in Iraq and Syria From CNN staff A screengrab from a video, geolocated by CNN to the town of Qaim, Iraq, shows the aftermath of US military strikes in the area according to the […]
A screengrab from a video, geolocated by CNN to the town of Qaim, Iraq, shows the aftermath of US military strikes in the area according to the Iraqi Military. An apparent weapons depot has been hit, and a number of flares from projectiles are seeing rocketing into the sky. Obtained by CNN The retaliation for […]
Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images President Joe Biden boards Air Force One after attending the dignified transfer of the remains of three US service members killed in the drone attack on the US military outpost in Jordan, at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, on February 2. CNN — It was meant to sound devastating, and likely felt so […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops . . .
The United States on Friday carried out a series of military strikes against Iranian forces and the militias they support in seven sites in Syria and Iraq, marking a sharp escalation of the war in the Middle East that the Biden administration has for four months sought to avoid. The airstrikes, targeting command and control […]
CNN — The US conducted major airstrikes on 85 targets across seven locations in Iraq and Syria on Friday, the start of what will likely be a series of larger-scale US strikes on Iranian-backed militias who have carried out attacks on US troops in the Middle East. The retaliatory strikes – which lasted 30 minutes and were […]
Iran projects its military power through dozens of armed groups across the Middle East, but how much does it control their actions? That question has taken on new urgency as the United States considers its next steps after an attack by an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia on an American base in northwest Jordan. The attack on […]
US representative to the United Nations and president of the UN Security Council for the month of August Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks during a press conference after a meeting of the UN Security Council on maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine at the United Nations Security headquarters on August 24, 2023 in New York […]
Biden says U.S. military response ‘will continue at times and places of our choosing’ Daniel Arkin President Joe Biden said in a statement that the U.S. military response to the killing of three U.S. soldiers “began today,” and it “will continue at times and places of our choosing.” “The United States does not seek conflict […]