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US strikes Iranian-linked targets in Syria

Defence secretary says ‘narrowly tailored’ action is retaliation for attacks on American forces in region
US defence secretary Lloyd Austin said the ‘precision self-defence strikes’ were retaliation for a series of attacks on American forces in Iraq and Syria by Iran-backed groups

The US military struck two facilities in eastern Syria that it identified as linked to Iranian-backed militias, defence secretary Lloyd Austin said, following more than a dozen attacks on American forces in the region in recent weeks.

US officials framed the strikes as self-defence, but the action, the first since war broke out between Hamas and Israel this month, could raise fears of spillover conflict across the region.

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