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The US military said Tuesday it carried out strikes in Deir-Ezzor, Syria, against facilities used by groups affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, without specifying whether the attack caused any casualties.
The American army announced on Tuesday August 23 that it had bombed pro-Iranian militia bases in eastern Syria. These strikes took place in the province of Deir-Ezzor and targeted “infrastructure used by groups affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards”, said the spokesman for the central command of the American army in the Middle East, the Col. Joe Buccino, in a statement.
The Revolutionary Guard Corps, considered the Iranian regime’s ideological army, is on the US blacklist of “terrorist groups”.
These “precision strikes” aim, according to Colonel Buccino, to “defend and protect American forces from attacks such as those carried out on August 15 by groups supported by Iran”. Several drones then attacked an advanced base of the anti-jihadist coalition, according to the Americans who had not deplored any casualties.
The American aerial bombardment on Tuesday hit nine bunkers used in particular for the storage of ammunition, Colonel Bucino then told CNN.
US forces “carried out this proportionate and deliberate operation to limit the risk of escalation and the risk of causing casualties”, he said.
The US bombardment was not immediately confirmed by Syrian state media.
Death of a general of a general of the Revolutionary Guards
Hundreds of American soldiers are deployed in northeastern Syria as part of the anti-jihadist coalition responsible for fighting, with their Kurdish allies from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the remnants of the Islamic State group.
Tuesday’s bombardment came the same day Iranian state media reported the death two days earlier of a Revolutionary Guards general killed during a ‘mission’ in Syria. No details were given on the circumstances of the death of the general, just described as a “defender of the sanctuary”, a term used to designate those who work on behalf of Iran in Syria or Iraq.
Iran says it deployed forces to Syria at the invitation of the Damascus regime and merely as advisers.
With AFP
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