SUBSCRIBER+REPORTING – The U.S. carried out a barrage of airstrikes towards greater than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria on Friday, shortly after the our bodies of three U.S. service members killed earlier this week in Jordan, had been returned to Dover Air Pressure Base in Delaware.

The U.S. navy mentioned its strikes lasted half-hour and hit targets linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the militias they help–teams which have claimed duty for greater than 150 assaults on U.S. forces since Israel’s invasion of Gaza final October. A type of teams, an umbrella group generally known as the Islamic Resistance of Iraq, mentioned it carried out the January 28 assault on the U.S. base generally known as Tower 22.  

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