US airstrikes hit Kataib Hezbollah sites in Iraq after attack on US troops
The US military carried out airstrikes on three facilities used by the Iraq-based Kataib Hezbollah and “affiliated groups” on Monday night after an attack injured three US troops, leaving one in critical condition, the White House said.
A US Central Command statement said early assessments indicated that the US airstrikes, ordered by President Joe Biden, “likely killed a number of Kataib Hezbollah militants.”
The Iranian-backed militant group earlier claimed credit for using a one-way attack drone to target the US forces on Erbil Air Base on Monday morning, the White House said.
A statement from US National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the US airstrikes on “three locations utilized by Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups focused specifically on unmanned aerial drone activities.”
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With how US and Israel carry out their strikes as "affiliated", it just comes off as "I felt like it". Did we forget how they just bombed civs for fun in Iraq/Afghanistan with no repercussions at all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/us/politics/afghanistan-drone-strike.html
Why the hell are they still there?
Allied countries commonly host each other's soldiers at their bases for cross training and joint operations.
Ah. Ok. I didn't think of that.
To protect "their" oil and to have a strategic base in Iraq that they can launch operations from. It's total BS.