The U.S. operation south of Baghdad targeted unspecified ‘combatants’ and followed a series of attacks on American forces in recent days, officials said.
U.S. forces carried out an airstrike in Iraq on Tuesday night, targeting unspecified “combatants” attempting to launch a one-way attack drone, officials said.
“This action underscores the United States’ commitment to the safety and security of our personnel,” the statement said. “We maintain the inherent right to self-defense and will not hesitate to take appropriate action.”A second defense official said the airstrike followed three attacks on U.S. forces in recent days. On Thursday, two rockets targeted Al Asad air base in Iraq and another struck on or near an American outpost in Syria, the official said.
Tuesday’s airstrike, reported earlier by Reuters, follows a spike in violence between Israel and Hezbollah, a powerful Iranian-backed group in Lebanon.in a busy neighborhood on the outskirts of Beirut, saying it had killed a senior Hezbollah commander responsible for an attack Saturday that killed 12 children in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. The Lebanese health ministry said the attack killed a woman and two children. Hezbollah denied it was responsible for the weekend attack.
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