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In reaction to a drone attack by Iran-aligned militias, the US military conducted targeted air strikes in Iraq. President Biden authorised precision air strikes to punish those responsible for attacks on coalition soldiers accountable.
General Michael Erik Kurilla indicated that the strikes were designed to reduce insurgents' capacity to carry out further operations. The retaliatory strikes are likely to have resulted in casualties among Kataib Hezbollah militants as well as the damage of the group's facilities. The drone attack targeted a military site operated by US and coalition anti-jihadist forces.
Source: The New York Times
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The US military conducted targeted air strikes in Iraq on Monday in retaliation to an earlier one-way drone attack by Iran-aligned militants. The drone strike, blamed on Kataib Hezbollah, gravely injured one US service member and injured two others at a US base in Iraq. President Joe Biden authorised the precision air strikes in order to hold individuals directly responsible for attacks on coalition forces in Iraq and Syria accountable.
Source: The New York Times
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According to the White House National Security Council, President Biden was briefed on the attack and asked the Pentagon to prepare reaction options against those involved. The operations, according to General Michael Erik Kurilla, director of US Central Command, were designed to weaken the insurgents' ability to carry out future attacks.
The retaliatory strikes are estimated to have killed Kataib Hezbollah militants and destroyed various facilities used by the group. The Pentagon did not reveal the identity of the seriously injured military member or share specifics about his or her injury.
The drone assault was carried out against a military base in northern Iraq that we and anti-jihadist coalition forces used. Yehia Rasool, the Iraqi prime minister's spokesman for military affairs, confirmed the event near Erbil airport in Iraqi Kurdistan. Shortly after the strike, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed credit for flying a drone into another US and coalition base near Harir, northeast of Arbil.
Source: The New York Times
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The Iraqi Islamic Resistance is a loosely linked coalition of armed organizations affiliated with the Hashed al-Shaabi coalition that is integrated into Iraq's conventional armed forces. Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, the number of strikes on the US and its alliance has escalated. These militia attacks against US troops can be interpreted as reprisal by the forces to the US's backing for Israel in the war.
