The United States launches raids on two installations in Iraq

The U.S. military announced that it was targeting two facilities in Iraq, calling it “Iran-backed militants.”in response to the attacks she suffered U.S. bases throughout Syria And Iraq over the past few weeks.

The US military said in a statement that the attack last night (Tuesday), which targeted two installations in Iraq, was “a direct response to attacks by Iran and Iranian-backed groups on US and coalition forces.”

The attack announced by the U.S. Army was the first public response from the U.S. to dozens of attacks targeting U.S. forces in the region since Operation al aqsa floods October 7 last year.

Reuters quoted an unnamed U.S. military official as saying. He said the strike by fighter jets targeted and destroyed an Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades operations center and its attached command and control center near Anbar and Youlf Saqr, south of Baghdad. Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah is a powerful armed faction with close ties to Iran.

The official said members of Kataib Hezbollah were at both locations, but the loss of personnel was being assessed.

Yesterday, on Tuesday, U.S. officials said a U.S. warplane responded in self-defense and killed a number of “Iran-backed militants” after an attack on a U.S. base west of Baghdad.

In the same context, two U.S. officials said that Ain al-Asad Air Base was hit by a close-range ballistic missile attack, causing eight casualties and minor damage to infrastructure.

To date, the U.S. response to more than 60 attacks on troops stationed in Iraq and Syria has been limited to three separate rounds of strikes in Syria, the first time the U.S. has directed an attack in Syria. against armed factions in Iraq.

An armed group calling itself the Islamic Resistance Movement of Iraq has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks on U.S. bases in Syria and Iraq.

In the context of supporting Israel’s war, the US military in the Middle East is facing escalating missile and drone attacks. Gaza Strip.

Washington blamed factions loyal to Iran and announced air strikes on sites in Syria that the Pentagon said were “linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.”

But the Pentagon has repeatedly stressed that it hopes the Gaza war will not expand into a regional confrontation with Iran and its loyalist forces.

About 2,500 U.S. troops are deployed in Iraq and about 900 in Syria.