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Missiles slam into ANOTHER US base in Syria: Iran-backed militants retaliate hours after Biden ordered deadly 'precision airstrikes' on their positions following suicide drone attack that killed American worker
Daily Mail UK ^ | 09:49 EDT, 24 March 2023 | By RACHAEL BUNYAN FOR MAILONLINE

Posted on 03/24/2023 7:22:21 AM PDT by Red Badger

Iran-backed fighters fired three missiles at US military base at Al-Omar oil field

US killed 11 militants in strikes after Iranian drone strike killed American

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The Iran-backed groups targeted the US base at the Al-Omar oil field in Syria's northeast with a missile attack at around 11am on Friday morning.

Two missiles fell in the oil field, without causing damage, while the third landed on a civilian house nearby, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It was unclear whether the strikes had caused any casualties.

The militants launched the strikes just hours after President Biden ordered the U.S. Central Command forces to launch 'precision airstrikes' against facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, killing 11 pro-Iran fighters.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday's retaliatory airstrikes against the IRGC, a wing of the Iranian military which is blacklisted as a terrorist group by the US, were carried out by F-15 fighter jets. White House national security spokesman John Kirby said today the strikes were aimed at protecting American personnel in Syria.

This decision was in response to an earlier Iranian suicide drone killed a US contractor and injured five service members, as well as another American contractor at a maintenance facility on a Coalition base near al-Hasakah in northeast Syria.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: bidenforeignpolicy; iran; lloydaustin; syria; war4oil
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To: Red Badger

Why are we in Syria again? What is America’s vital national interest in Syria?


21 posted on 03/24/2023 7:40:02 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird
What is America’s vital national interest in Syria?

To keep the inept bumbler and his mounting failures (and that is being nice) off the front page.

22 posted on 03/24/2023 7:42:11 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Red Badger

Opening salvos and volley!

Lions, Bears, Eagles, ....


23 posted on 03/24/2023 7:42:51 AM PDT by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

It’s another Oil occupation. Pathetic!


24 posted on 03/24/2023 7:43:49 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! It's )
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To: Tom Tetroxide
> Why are we in Syria? <

Look, it’s just this simple:

See? It’s well worth us spending blood and treasure there while problems at home go unattended.

25 posted on 03/24/2023 7:45:34 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: AndyJackson
How many wars do we want to keep going at one time?

As many as it takes to jumpstart our economy and get it back on track.

/sarc
26 posted on 03/24/2023 7:45:52 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: FLT-bird

Stealing oil, protecting ISIS, various other Deep State /CIA crap.


27 posted on 03/24/2023 7:46:39 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: BipolarBob

And 90% of other countries as enemies.


28 posted on 03/24/2023 7:47:44 AM PDT by JoJo354 (We need to get to work, Conservatives!)
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To: Red Badger

Amateur Hour, every day.


29 posted on 03/24/2023 7:48:49 AM PDT by mykroar (what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. - J0eStalin)
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To: Red Badger

George Washington’s farewell address: Avoid foreign entanglements. Face it the alien Islamic nations bitterly resent mostly white, Christian Americans and Europeans interfering in their affairs. there is no strategic reason to do so. They will continue to drill oil and deliver it to America because they need the money to buy goods that they cannot produce themselves. Time to come home and leave them to their fate.


30 posted on 03/24/2023 7:48:59 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Leaning Right
And the one Country not on your list grows more powerful.
31 posted on 03/24/2023 7:49:16 AM PDT by cowboyusa (There is no co- existence with Pinks and Reds)
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To: ConservativeInPA

The next year and a half we will see the world on fire...........


32 posted on 03/24/2023 7:50:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Send them a strongly worded letter, too.


33 posted on 03/24/2023 7:51:17 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. )
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To: Red Badger

What in the world are we doing in the Syrian oil fields? I thought Asyad is supposed to be our enemy. We left Afghanistan after accomplishing nothing, next it will be Syria.


34 posted on 03/24/2023 7:51:24 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: FLT-bird

We “need” to keep Russia out of Syrian ports so Biden can claim his sanctions are working.


35 posted on 03/24/2023 7:53:33 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

So we’ll hit them again. And again. We spent ten years de-radicalizing Iraq’s foreign policy and just finished eight years of Whack-a-Mole with ISIS.


36 posted on 03/24/2023 7:55:15 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: cowboyusa

> And the one Country not on your list grows more powerful. <

I didn’t notice that, but by golly you are right. Good catch.


37 posted on 03/24/2023 7:56:06 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: FLT-bird
I am confused by what we are doing in Syria. Didn't Obama and Biden arm and help create the Isis terrorist that Syria is fighting against? We shouldn't be arming terrorist because It always comes back to cost Americans their lives. I do remember the war monger coward John Mccstain supporting terrorist in this area before he croaked. Anything he was supporting wasn't in America's best interest.
38 posted on 03/24/2023 7:59:17 AM PDT by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: G Larry

Uh, The enemy isn’t them, it is us. US.


39 posted on 03/24/2023 8:05:59 AM PDT by Shady (DC Politicians have negated their need to represent US when they bastardized the vote.)
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Hey, send 400 billion bucks to Tehran and ask them pretty please…


40 posted on 03/24/2023 8:06:36 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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