US military forces conducted attacks against facilities operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated groups in Syria, the Pentagon announced Thursday, in an operation officials say thwarted operations against American personnel, the Washington Post reports.
“These precision self-defense strikes are a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups that began on October 17,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement, before adding that the US has no intention to carry on further operations at this time.