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On 23 January 2024, the United States launched a series of airstrikes on three facilities used by Iran-backed militias in Iraq. [84] [85] The United States defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, announced the strikes in a statement the same day. [86] The strikes targeted several militia groups with connections to Iran, including Kataib Hezbollah.
On 2 February 2024, the United States Air Force launched a series of airstrikes targeting Iran 's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran-backed militia groups located in Iraq and Syria. The attack was launched in retaliation against a drone strike carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeting US troops in Jordan the week before ...
Control of many U.S.-operated bases was transferred to the Iraqi government during the 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal. At the request of the Iraqi government in January 2024, [3] and amid rising regional tensions following the 2023 Israeli invasion of Gaza, the US and Iraq are set to begin negotiations to end US military presence in Iraq. [4]
The U.S. military launched airstrikes on Friday in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and the militias it backs, in retaliation for last ...
British forces on Saturday joined their American allies in new attacks against militia in Yemen. The U.S. military earlier launched strikes on dozens of sites manned by Iran-backed fighters in ...
24 January – The US military launches airstrikes on facilities in Iraq used by Kata'ib Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed militias, in retaliation for the 20 January attack on Al-Asad Airbase. [4] 31 January – Kata'ib Hezbollah suspends operations against the U.S. military in Iraq, to "prevent embarrassment of the Iraqi government". [5]
The Deir ez-Zor air raid was a series of 37 U.S.-led Coalition airstrikes near the Deir ez-Zor Airport in eastern Syria on 17 September 2016 that killed between 50 and 60 Syrian Army soldiers and wounded 30 more. The United States said that the intended target was Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants and that the attack on Syrian ...
The United States on Friday conducted major airstrikes on dozens of targets across Iraq and Syria in retaliation for a drone attack in Jordan last month that killed three US troops.