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(26 Feb 2021) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4313184

The Pentagon confirmed Friday that a U.S. airstrike in Syria Thursday targeted facilities belonging to a powerful Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the strikes were retaliation for recent attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq, including a rocket attack in northern Iraq on Feb. 15 that killed one civilian contractor and wounded a U.S. service member and other coalition troops.
Kirby said two Air Force F-15E aircraft launched seven missiles, fully destroying nine facilities and heavily damaging two other facilities, rendering the two “functionally destroyed.”
He said the facilities, at “entry control points” on the border, had been used by militia groups the U.S. deems responsible for a number of recent attacks against U.S. interests in Iraq.
Kirby said the facilities hit in the attack were near Boukamal, on the Syrian side of the Iraq border, along the Euphrates River.
He said the U.S. has preliminary information about casualties at the attack site, but he declined to release any details pending the completion of a broader assessment of damage inflicted. He described the site as a “compound” that previously had been used by the Islamic State group when it held sway in the area.
Kirby said the strikes "send a very clear signal" that "the United States will act to protect American and coalition personnel and our security interests in the region."

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