🇺🇸🇸🇾US bombs Iran-aligned groups in Syria with air strikes after drone attack that killed American army contractor.

US military carries out multiple air strikes on Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) position, which Pentagon claims was behind drone attack on March 23 that killed 1 American and injured 6.

What’s Uncle Sam doing in Syria anyway? Ah yes the OIL…

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#BREAKING
🇺🇸❌🇸🇾🇮🇷❗️ — According to ABC News, instead of Israel, it was US Air Force that launched airstrikes in Eastern Syria!

It happened after one US contractor was killed and five US Army troops were injured by a drone of Iranian origin attacked a coalition base near Hasakah in NE Syria!

🇸🇾💣❗️ — Local medias reports that large scale explosions took place in Harabesh neighbourhood, Deir Ez Zor city in eastern Syria, near the Syrian Government-controlled Deir EzZoor military airport, as reports of unknown fighter jets flying over the place

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷❗️ — US Department of Defense via Statement:

— "Earlier today, a U.S. contractor was killed and five U.S. service members and one additional U.S. contractor were wounded after a one-way unmanned aerial vehicle struck a maintenance facility on a Coalition base near Hasakah in northeast Syria at approximately 1:38 p.m. local time.

The intelligence community assess the UAV to be of Iranian origin.

— "At the direction of President Biden, I authorized U.S. Central Command forces (US CENTCOM) to conduct precision airstrikes tonight in eastern Syria against facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)," said Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III. "The airstrikes were conducted in response to today’s attack as well as a series of recent attacks against Coalition forces in Syria by groups affiliated with the IRGC."

These precision strikes are intended to protect and defend U.S. personnel.

The United States took proportionate and deliberate action intended to limit the risk of escalation and minimize casualties."

Link
https://archive.is/WWZEY

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — As noted by the statement, US Army targeted "Groups affiliated with IRGC", so it could mean:

— 🇮🇷 Liwa Fatemiyoun (Shia Afghan Militia)
— 🇮🇷 Liwa Zainebiyoun (Shia Pakistani Militia)
— 🇮🇷 Kata'ib Hezbollah (Shia Iraqi Militia, much less likely, in admin's opinion)
— 🇮🇶 PMF (Coalition of Iraqi Militias, much less likely, in admin's opinion)
— 🇮🇶 Rogue Small Pro-Iran Iraqi groups, which commonly used to attack US troops on Iraqi side of the border
— 🇸🇾🇸🇾 Pro-Assad Militias, often called the Popular Resistances (possible, but impossible to know at the moment)
— ❓ A New Group (?)