forces in Iraq and Syria 16 times in the past 10 days,causing more than 20 injuries as the Pentagon is surging airdefenses to the region.The most recent attack targeted U.S. forces at a base attachedto the airport in Erbil, Iraq, with no casualties reported, Pentagonspokesman Brig. Gen....
forces in Iraq and Syria have been carried out by Iran-backed militia groups. The number of attacks ramped up after Oct. 7, when the war between Israel and Hamas broke out. Since October, U.S. forces in Iraq, Syria, as well as Jordan have been attacked over 180 times, according to...
Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas conflict on Oct. 7, Iran-affiliated militias have increased their attacks on U.S. bases in Syria in retaliation for the U.S. backing of Israel. According to the war monitor, the number of such attacks has reached nearly 80 times.■...
The last major Iranian attack on U.S. forces was inJanuary 2020, when Tehran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles on al-Asad air base in Iraq. U.S. and coalition troops were warned of the incoming missiles and were able to take cover, butmore than 100 U.S. service membersreceived ...
The U.S. began conducting airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on Friday against Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups, the U.S. Central Command said, in what the Biden administration has called a "multi-tiered" response to a deadly drone attack that killed three ...
US troops in Syria and Iraq have frequently come under attack since the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out on October 7, 2023. US retaliatory counterstrikes against Iran-backed militias in the region have so far failed to ...
The president said in a statement that his administration was still gathering facts about the attack. Nonetheless, he attributed the attack to Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq. In a separate statement, U.S. Central Command confirmed that the number of wounded soldiers stood...
Mohammad Hassan, a media coordinator for the activist-run Deir Ezzor 24, said at least 12 soldiers and five IS militants were killed in the clashes. A recent U.N. report warned that IS, which once boasted of commanding a caliphate stretching across northern Syria and Iraq, is adopting a ...
Days later, Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada's commander vowed to retaliate and since then several rockets attacks have been reported against bases housing U.S. troops in Syria and Iraq. Hundreds of U.S. troops are deployed in eastern Syria as part of the war against the Islamic State...
Days later, Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada's commander vowed to retaliate and since then several rockets attacks have been reported against bases housing U.S. troops in Syria and Iraq. Hundreds of U.S. troops are deployed in eastern Syria as part of the war against the Islamic State group. Th...