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U.S. Plans Further Action Against Iran's Militia Allies

(Wall Street Journal) Benoit Faucon - U.S. Central Command said it had conducted another strike early Sunday against an antiship cruise-missile position that the Houthis had prepared to target vessels in the Red Sea. Separately, Washington said it is also planning more military strikes in response to an attack from an Iran-backed militia that killed three American soldiers in Jordan a week ago. "That is not the end of it," national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," referring to American reprisals against targets in Syria and Iraq on Friday. He said that the U.S. intends to carry out "additional action to continue to send a clear message that the United States will respond when our forces are attacked or people are killed." The U.S. military so far hasn't killed any Iranian forces in Syria and Iraq, and the U.S. has given the Iranians ample time to move their troops out of the area. Some Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders in eastern Syria have moved to safe houses in densely populated areas and to the south of the country. In Yemen, 50 advisers from Iran's Guards and Lebanon's Hizbullah left coastal areas where they had been assisting missile and drone attacks on ships.
2024-02-05 00:00:00
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