US airstrikes target bunkers used by Iran-linked militias in Syria
US President Joe Biden authorized the strikes in a bid to deter harassment of US troops in Iraq and Syria.
The US military said it carried out precision airstrikes against a bunker complex used by Iran-backed militias in eastern Syria early on Wednesday.
US President Joe Biden authorized the strikes on Tuesday in response to the recent targeting of two US bases in Syria with rockets and armed drones. US military officials said groups tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were behind those attacks, but have not specified which.
Eight US fighter jets, four F-16s and four F-15s, dropped guided bombs on nine bunkers at the Ayyash depot in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province around 4 a.m. local time on Wednesday, US officials said.
The site is used by IRGC personnel and affiliated militias for logistical purposes and to store munitions, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby confirmed publicly today. American forces closely surveilled the facility for more than four hundred total hours leading up to the strikes, according to military officials briefed on the operation.
