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2023-03-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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US says contractor killed, troops wounded in Iranian drone attack in Syria; US retaliates
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[IsraelTimes] Pentagon announces retaliatory strikes against IRGC-linked groups in eastern Syria following deadly Deir Ezzour assault
A US contractor was killed and five US service members and one other US contractor were maimed when a drone struck a facility on a coalition base in northeast Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon said.
In a statement released late Thursday, the Defense Department said the intelligence community had determined the unmanned aerial vehicle was of Iranian origin.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said US Central Command forces retaliated with "precision Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s" against facilities in eastern Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
"The airstrikes were conducted in response to today’s attack as well as a series of recent attacks against Coalition forces in Syria by groups affiliated with the IRGC," Austin said.
Overnight, videos on social media purported to show explosions in Syria’s Deir Ezzor, a strategic province that borders Iraq and contains oil fields.
Iran-backed militia groups and Syrian forces control the area, which also has seen suspected airstrikes by Israel in recent months allegedly targeting Iranian supply routes.
Syria’s state-run SANA news agency did not immediately acknowledge any strikes. Syria’s mission to the United Nations
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did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
’s state-run news agency
...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
reported a call between its foreign minister and Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser. Doha has been an interlocutor between Iran
 ...They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and the US recently amid tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program.
There was no immediate reaction from Iran over the strikes, which come during the holy Moslem fasting month of Ramadan.
Austin said he authorized the retaliatory strikes at the direction of President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan...
"As President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry......
has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing," Austin said. "No group will strike our troops with impunity."
The Pentagon said two of the maimed service members were treated on site, while three others and the injured contractor were transported to medical facilities in Iraq. 
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