Biden warns retaliation for drone attack that killed three soldiers will CONTINUE after long-range bombers and drones hit Middle East
• Pentagon launched devastating military operation in the Middle East on Friday
• Two bombers flew from the U.S. to hit sites linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
• Strikes began after Biden attended dignified transfer for the three troops killed.
The U.S. has launched a devastating wave of airstrikes on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and militants in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops.
Multiple long-range bombers and drones hit 85 targets with 125 bombs over 30 minutes in the widespread military operation on Friday night ordered by President Joe Biden.
As explosions rang out across the Middle East the president said the payback strikes will continue ‘at times and places of our choosing’ and warned militias: ‘If you harm an American, we will respond’.
Two B-1- bombers flew from the U.S. for the mission hitting seven facilities – three and Iraq and four in Syria – linked to the IRGC and Iran-backed militias.
The targets included command and intelligence centers and warehouses where missiles and drones were stored.
Shocking footage from Al-Qaim, an Iraqi border town, showed rockets flying from a munitions factory believed to have been hit by American bombers at midnight local time.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said at least 18 pro-Iranian fighters were killed in eastern Syria and Iraq called the strikes a ‘violation of sovereignty’.
The huge operation is the first from the U.S. striking back after Iran-backed militias’ deadly strike on the Tower 22 base near Jordan’s border with Syria and Iraq last Sunday.
Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, Specialist Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, and Specialist Breonna Moffett, 23, were killed and more than 40 troops were injured in the attack that sparked further tensions in the Middle East.