Posted in: 24/08/2022 – 10:52
Under “directions” from President Joe Biden, the US military on Tuesday bombed “infrastructure facilities” in eastern Syria linked to the Iranian “Revolutionary Guard”, according to what a US military spokesman announced. The same source explained that the strikes targeted nine caches within a complex used for storing ammunition and for logistical purposes.
On the orders of President Joe Biden, the US military carried out strikes in eastern Syria on Tuesday, targeting facilities used by groups linked to the “Revolutionary Guard”. Iranianaccording to a US military spokesman.
In a statement, a spokesman for the US Army Central Command (Centcom), Colonel Joe Buccino, said that the strikes in Deir ez-Zor province “targeted infrastructure facilities used by groups linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.”
Buccino said that these “precision strikes are aimed at defending and protecting American forces from attacks similar to those carried out by Iranian-backed groups on August 15 once morest elements of the United States” when it targeted a position of the anti-jihadist forces led by the United States without causing any casualties. .
The statement stressed that “President Biden gave directions to launch these strikes.” Separately, the colonel told CNN that Tuesday’s strikes targeted nine caches within a compound used for munitions storage and for logistical purposes.
The US military’s goal was originally to hit 11 of the 13 hideouts in the compound, but it retreated to target only two hideouts following groups of people were seen near them, Buccino said, adding that the initial assessment indicates that no one was killed in the operation.
In a statement, “Centcom”, the colonel said that the US forces “taken a proportionate and deliberate move aimed at reducing the risk of escalation and reducing the risk of casualties.”
It is noteworthy that hundreds of American soldiers are deployed in northeastern Syria as part of a coalition focused on fighting the remaining members of the “Islamic State” organization. While there was no immediate confirmation of the US strikes from the Syrian media.
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that explosions resounded in Deir ez-Zor at dawn “as a result of air strikes by American planes, targeting Ayash warehouses and a camp for Iranian militias in Deir ez-Zor.”
He continued, “At four in the morning, the planes launched more than three air strikes with high-explosive missiles, which resulted in the destruction of the Ayyash warehouses and the Sa’iqa camp, which the Afghan Fatemiyoun militia takes as its center, amid information regarding the killing of six guards of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, and wounded in the ranks of militias.”
This attack comes in conjunction with an announcement by Iranian media that a general in the Revolutionary Guards was killed on Sunday while he was “performing a mission in Syria as a military advisor.”
The sources did not give additional details regarding his killing, except that they indicated that he is “Sardar” (in reference to the senior officers of the Guard), and “Defender of the Sanctuary” (meaning one of the defenders of the holy Shiite shrines), which is the term officially used in the Islamic Republic to refer to members of the armed forces. Revolutionary Guards who perform tasks in the context of the conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
Tehran confirms the presence of members of its armed forces in Syria on advisory missions.
FRANCE 24/AFP