Two U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles conducted an airstrike in eastern Syria in response to escalating attacks against U.S. forces by Iranian-backed groups, the Defense Department said Nov. 8. The target was a weapons storage facility used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ...
U.S. forces continue to come under attack from Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria, with "conservative" estimates of at least 40 attacks, mostly with drones and rockets, since Oct. 17. But U.S. leaders are fuzzy on what constitutes an attack on U.S. forces. “I think ...