the US army announces that it has bombed the bases of pro-Iranian militias

New strikes in Syria. The American army announced on Tuesday August 23 that it had bombed pro-Iranian militia bases in eastern Syria. These strikes took place in the province of Deir Ezzor and targeted “facilities used by groups affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards”said the spokesman for the central command of the American army in the Middle East, colonel Joe Buccino, in a press release.

The Revolutionary Guard Corps, considered the Iranian regime’s ideological army, is on the US blacklist of “terrorist groups”. These “precision strikes” aim, according to Colonel Buccino, to “defend and protect US forces from attacks like those carried out on August 15 by Iranian-backed groups”. Several drones then attacked an advanced base of the anti-jihadist coalition, according to the Americans who had not deplored any casualties.

The American aerial bombardment on Tuesday hit nine bunkers used in particular for the storage of ammunition, Colonel Buccino then told CNN. American forces have “carried out this proportionate and deliberate operation to limit the risk of escalation and that of causing casualties”, he said. Hundreds of American soldiers are deployed in northeastern Syria as part of the anti-jihadist coalition responsible for fighting, with their Kurdish allies from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the remnants of the Islamic State (IS) group.