![]() ![]() ![]() The retaliatory US bombing raids in late August killed at least four fighters. There were no casualties and a spokesperson described the assaults mostly as "harassing in nature." Other US bases, known as Green Village and Koniko in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, were also targeted by rockets. In an August 25 letter to the US Congress, President Joe Biden explained why he had ordered the retaliatory strikes: "In order to protect and defend the safety of our personnel, to degrade and disrupt the ongoing series of attacks against the US and our partners, and to deter … further attacks."Įarlier in August, one US base in al-Tanf, Syria, close to where the borders of Syria, Jordan and Iraq meet, had come under attack from drones. "It always raises the question: Why are they there?" "This comes up whenever US forces get attacked," Dareen Khalifa, senior Syria analyst for the think tank Crisis Group, told DW. "What are we still doing in Syria?" one headline read, after the bombing.Īmerican politician, Chris Murphy, who chairs a US government foreign relations subcommittee, published a statement questioning "the wisdom of having so many Americans so thinly spread across the region." After the US bombed Iran-allied fighters in Syria last week, the same old question came up yet again.
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