US conducts strikes in Syria after American killed in attack

A quick answer. U.S. forces conducted “precision air strikes” in eastern Syria after a drone attack that killed an American and injured six others, the Pentagon announced on Thursday March 23.

The American subcontractor died after an offensive conducted Thursday around 1:38 p.m. (11:38 a.m. in Paris) against a maintenance facility at a base near Hasakah, in northeastern Syria, said the Ministry of Defense. US intelligence services consider the drone to be “of Iranian descent”. The strike also injured five soldiers and another contractor, all Americans.

Installations of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards

“I have authorized United States Central Command forces to conduct precision airstrikes tonight in eastern Syria against facilities used by groups affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard Corps” Iranians, Defense Minister Lloyd Austin was quoted in the statement as saying. Eight pro-Iran fighters were killed by US strikes, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Airstrikes were also carried out “in response to a series of recent attacks on coalition forces in Syria by groups affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard Corps”, claimed Lloyd Austin. Several hundred American soldiers are in Syria as part of a coalition fighting against the remnants of the Islamic State group. They are frequently targeted in attacks by militias.