US bombs pro-Iranian militia positions in Iraq and Syria in response to attack in Jordan

Washington attacks more than 85 targets and emphasizes that it is not seeking a conflict in the Middle East

The United States informed Iraq before carrying out the attacks

This Friday, the United States carried out a series of bombings in Iraq and Syria against positions linked to the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and pro-Iranian militias in response to the death of three US soldiers following an attack last Sunday in Jordan.

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has indicated in a statement on the social network Revolutionary Party of Iran and affiliated pro-Iran militias.

"United States military forces attacked more than 85 targets, with numerous aircraft, including long-range bombers flown from the United States. The airstrikes used more than 125 precision munitions," the country's Secretary of Defense later stated. , Lloyd Austin, confirmed them in a statement in which he also added that the attacks were against seven different facilities in both countries.

Specifically, Washington has attacked command and control facilities, Intelligence centers, warehouses for drones, rockets, missiles, as well as logistics buildings and facilities that ensure the supply chain of said militias.

According to White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, these bombings were notified to Iraq before they occurred, shortly after the Iraqi military criticized the attacks as a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.

"We informed the Iraqi government before the attacks," Kirby explained in a statement to the media reported by the Middle East Eye newspaper, in which he reported that the United States does not know how many combatants have been killed or injured.

Austin, explained in a statement that "this is the beginning of our response", since "the President - Joe Biden - has ordered additional actions to hold the IRGC and affiliated militias accountable for their attacks against US and Iraqi forces." the coalition."

"The United States does not seek conflicts in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world. But let all those who may try to harm us know this: if they harm an American, we will respond," Biden himself stated in another statement.

The president has also reported that he received the bodies of the soldiers killed in Jordan this Friday at the Dover air base. "I have spoken to each of their families," he said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in London and an informant in the Arab country, later stated that 13 militia members have died during bombings, supposedly attributed to the United States, in the Syrian province of Deir Ezzor.

Specifically, US bombings have affected at least 17 positions of pro-Iran militias in the districts of Al Mayadin and Al Bukamal, near the border with Iraq, according to sources from the Syrian Observatory.

The attack in Jordan was carried out by the Iraqi Shiite militia Kataib Hezbollah, as confirmed by Wasghinton, a group belonging to the Islamic Resistance of Iraq, supported by Iran, and which announced on Tuesday that it was suspending its operations against the United States.