[NPASYRIA] White House National Security Council front man John Kirby said on Sunday that US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
is committed to keep US troops in Syria in the wake of Iranian-backed attacks and to fight back Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS).
The mission against ISIS will not change, as the group is still viable and critical, he told Margaret Brennan on CBS’s "Face the Nation."
Kirby said Biden acted "swiftly and boldly," saying additional US action has not been ruled out.
On March 23, an Iranian drone targeted a US base in northern Syria, killing a US contractor and injuring a number of soldiers.
On March 25, the US forces and Iranian militias present in Deir ez-Zor in government-held areas, eastern Syria, exchanged missile strikes, and 13 members of the Iranian militias were killed and maimed.
"I’m certainly not going to rule out the potential for additional U.S. action if the president deems it appropriate and necessary to continue to protect our troops and our facilities," Kirby said.
"We’re going to keep at that and that message is sent loud and clear," he added.
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