After US Troops Injured:1An Iraqi Drone Attack Biden Backed by Iran.
Three US service members were hurt in a UAV attack on an Erbil base, one of them seriously.
After a drone attack in northern Iraq injured three US service members, US President Joe Biden directed the US military to launch retaliatory airstrikes against militia groups backed by Iran.
According to Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, one US soldier was critically hurt in the attack on Monday.
The attack, which used a one-way attack drone, was attributed to the Iranian-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah and associated groups operating under the banner of Iranian-backed militants.
After US Troops Injured:1An Iraqi Drone Attack Biden Backed by Iran.
According to Iraqi officials, the US struck militia sites early on Tuesday, killing one fighter and injuring eighteen others. They occurred during a period of increased anxiety over an Israel-Hamas war spreading throughout the region.
Iran said on Monday that one of its top generals, Seyed Razi Mousavi, who had been close to Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was killed in an Israeli strike on the outskirts of Damascus, the capital of Syria.
In January 2020, a US drone strike in Iraq killed Soleimani.
Although Iranian officials promised to exact revenge for Mousavi’s death, they delayed taking military action.
The supposed Israeli strike in Syria that killed Mousavi came before the militia attack on US forces in northern Iraq on Monday.
Biden was at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, for Christmas shortly after the attack on an American air base in Erbil on Monday, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan informed him of the attack and gave the Pentagon and his top national security aides instructions to prepare a response.
After US Troops Injured:1An Iraqi Drone Attack Biden Backed by Iran.
Lloyd Austin, the US Secretary of Defense, conferred with Sullivan. According to a US official who asked to remain anonymous and was not authorized to publicly comment, Biden’s deputy national security adviser, Jon Finer, met with the president at Camp David and called together senior aides to discuss options.
Shortly after, Biden called a meeting of his national security team, during which Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. CQ Brown briefed Biden on available options for response.
Biden chose to focus on three areas utilized by Hezbollah and its allies, according to the official. Less than thirteen hours after the US personnel were attacked, at approximately 4:45 a.m. on Tuesday, US forces launched their strikes in Iraq.
After US Troops Injured:1An Iraqi Drone Attack Biden Backed by Iran.
The retaliatory strikes on the three sites, according to US Central Command, “destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of Kataib Hezbollah militants.”
Watson stated, “The protection of American personnel serving in harm’s way is the President’s top priority.” Should these attacks continue, “the United States will act at a time and in a manner of our choosing.”
After months of increasing threats and acts against US forces in the area following the catastrophic October 7 Hamas attack that ignited the war, the most recent attack on US troops comes in Gaza.
Following the terror group’s unprecedented attack into southern Israel, Israel began its offensive. Approximately 1,200 individuals, primarily civilians, were slaughtered in Israel. An additional two hundred and forty people were abducted.
After US Troops Injured:1An Iraqi Drone Attack Biden Backed by Iran.
Since October 17, when Iranian-backed militant groups operating under the name Islamic Resistance in Iraq and Syria started attacking US facilities, the back-and-forth strikes between the US and Iran have intensified.
Since October 7, militias backed by Iran have attacked US bases in Syria and Iraq more than 100 times.
In November, after US forces at Al-Assad Air Base in western Iraq were attacked by short-range ballistic missiles, US fighter jets attacked a Kataib Hezbollah operations center and command and control node.
A drone attack was also conducted by militias backed by Iran October, at the same air base, resulting in minor injuries.
The United States has also placed the blame for attacks by Yemen’s Houthis against military and commercial vessels through a vital Red Sea shipping choke point on Iran, which has provided funding and training to the terrorist organization Hamas.
Additionally, Israel has been the target of numerous drone and missile attacks by the Houthis.
The Biden administration has worked to keep the Israel-Hamas war from escalating into a larger regional conflict that could involve the US directly or open up new fronts for Israeli combat.
Republicans have criticized the administration for its measured response, which has not always resulted in a counterattack against American troops.
Thousands of US soldiers are in Iraq assisting the country’s military, and fighting hundreds of Islamic State militants in Syria and their surviving members, primarily as part of the counter-IS effort.
Since the start of the war on October 7, they have been the target of numerous attacks, none of which have been fatal as of yet.
The US has blamed these attacks on organizations supported by Iran.
Austin said in a statement, “We are committed and fully prepared to take further necessary measures to protect our people and our facilities, even though we do not seek to escalate conflict in the region.”
The conflicts placed Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s administration in a precarious situation.
A coalition of Iranian-backed parties, some of which are connected to the same militias that attack US bases, supported him when he came to power in 2022.
A collection following the Islamic State’s 2014 takeover of much of Iraq, Iranian-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces played a crucial role in the battle against the extremist group.
Although the Iraqi army commands the PMF officially, the militias function autonomously in real life.
Sudani denounced the militia attack in Erbil as well as the US response in a statement on Tuesday.
Iraq’s sovereignty is violated and attacks on “foreign diplomatic mission headquarters and sites hosting military advisers from friendly nations… are deemed unacceptable under any circumstances,” according to the statement.
It did, however, add that the US’s retaliatory strikes on “Iraqi military sites,” which are militia locations, “constitute a clear hostile act.” According to Sudani, some civilians were hurt during the strikes.
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