After a burst of deadly violence between U.S. forces and suspected Iranian proxies in Syria, the Biden administration warned that while it wants to avoid a wider confrontation, indiscriminate attacks on U.S. troops would not go unpunished.
While the United States retains a large military footprint across the region, U.S. leaders are hoping to avoid the long, costly combat missions that dominated American foreign policy in the decades after 9/11.Speaking to lawmakers this week, Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, the top U.S. military officer overseeing operations in the Middle East, said that, since January 2021, groups with ties to Iran had launched 78 attacks targeting U.S.
Biden consulted with his national security team before authorizing the airstrikes, White House spokesman John Kirby Kirby characterized the region where Thursday’s attack occurred as “dangerous,” and said American personnel assigned there are focused principally on ensuring “the enduring defeat” of the Islamic State. “We’ve been very clear with the Iranians and with our partners about how serious the mission that we’re doing in Syria is and how much we’re going to protect that mission,” Kirby said. “Iran should not be involved in supporting these attacks on our facilities and on our people.
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