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On 28 June 2021, President Biden directed airstrikes against Iran-backed militia groups close to the Syria-Iraq border. [2] F-15E and F-16 aircraft were used to launch the attack in what the U.S. described as a retaliatory attack against U.S. facilities and personnel in Iraq by militia groups. [3][4] Two operational and weapons storage ...
Attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria; Part of the spillover of the Israel–Hamas war and the Iran–Israel proxy conflict: Top: The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike groups in November 2023 Bottom: Map of Iran-backed strikes (red) and American counterstrikes (blue) in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria
54–55 [a] killed. On 2 February 2024, the United States Air Force launched a series of airstrikes targeting Iran 's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran-backed militia groups located in Iraq and Syria. The attack was launched in retaliation against a drone strike carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeting US troops in ...
The Euphrates River cuts through Syria into Iraq, with U.S. troops and American-backed Kurdish-led fighters on the east bank and Iran-backed fighters and Syrian government forces to the west.
The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state-sponsored and non-state actors. In March 2011, popular discontent with the rule of Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring protests in the region.
The United States launched attacks Friday against 85 sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian forces and Iran-backed militants, its first retaliatory strikes for the killing of three American ...
Many states began to intervene against the Islamic State, in both the Syrian Civil Warand the War in Iraq (2013–2017), in response to its rapid territorial gains from its 2014 Northern Iraq offensives, universally condemned executions, human rights abusesand the fear of further spillovers of the Syrian Civil War.
Iraqi conflict. The Iraqi conflict is a series of violent events that began with the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq and deposition of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, the most recent of which is the ISIS conflict, in which the Iraqi government declared victory in 2017. [4] In the ensuing 2003-11 Iraq War, the Multi-National Force (MNF–I ...