U.S. airstrikes hit Iran-backed militia infrastructure in Syria, U.S. says
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The United States carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria Tuesday targeting facilities used by Iranian-backed militias, a U.S. military spokesman said.
The strikes in oil-rich Deir Ezzor province "targeted infrastructure facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," U.S. Central Command (Centcom) spokesman Colonel Joe Buccino said in a statement.
Buccino said the "precision strikes are intended to defend and protect U.S. forces from attacks like the ones on August 15 against U.S. personnel by Iran-backed groups," when a number of drones targeted an outpost of U.S.-led anti-jihadist forces without causing any casualties.
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