US forces and their allies have been targeted in at least 16 attacks in Syria and Iraq since the start of the month, the Pentagon said on Thursday, again blaming “paramilitary groups linked to Iran” as fears continue to be raised about the risk of a regional spread. of the Israel/Hamas war.
US forces and their allies have been targeted in at least 16 attacks in Syria and Iraq since the start of the month, the Pentagon said on Thursday, again blaming “paramilitary groups linked to Iran” as fears continue to be raised about the risk of a regional spread. of the Israel/Hamas war.
US and international anti-jihadist coalition forces stationed in Iraq and Syria have come under repeated drone and rocket attacks over the past week, amid conflict between the Jewish state and the Palestinian Islamist movement that rules the Gaza Strip and the in recent years it has been considered close to Tehran.
Between October 17 and 26, “US and coalition forces were targeted 12 times in Iraq and 4 times in Syria,” Pentagon spokesman Wing Commander Pat Ryder said yesterday.
The most recent of these attacks took place yesterday Thursday, in the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq, and caused “minor damage to infrastructure”, however, there were no “casualties”, added Mr. Ryder, addressing journalists accredited to the US Department of Defense.
Organization that claimed responsibility for drone attacks in Syria and Iraq is not officially linked to Iran. But Washington considers that Tehran is involved, that these are proxy attacks, and threatened to retaliate “decisively”.
“We know (the attacks) are being carried out by Iranian-backed paramilitary groups, and we therefore hold Iran responsible for those groups,” the senior US official insisted.
Armed groups close to Iran have threatened to attack US bases because of US support for Israel, which declared war on Hamas after the Palestinian Islamist movement’s unprecedented attack on Israeli territory on October 7. Which raises concerns about the prospect of “major escalation” against US forces in the region, according to the Pentagon.
The Hamas attack killed more than 1,400 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to Israeli authorities. Since then, more than 7,000 Palestinians, also mostly civilians, have been killed in the Israeli army’s relentless shelling of the Gaza Strip, according to the latest tally from the Hamas health ministry.
Washington has about 900 troops deployed in Syria and nearly 2,500 in Iraq as part of operations against the Islamic State group.
Source :Skai
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