{"id":266769,"date":"2023-03-24T09:06:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T09:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266769"},"modified":"2023-03-25T07:04:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T07:04:20","slug":"iranian-drone-kills-american-national-wounds-us-soldiers-in-syria-pentagon-hits-back-with-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266769","title":{"rendered":"Iranian drone kills American national, wounds US soldiers in Syria | Pentagon hits back with strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hindustan Times \u2013 March 24, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RgTZ_nCMvxM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0US airstrikes target Syrian troops in Dayr al-Zawr; no Iranian killed<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 March 24, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>The US military has carried out multiple airstrikes in eastern Syria in another flagrant\u00a0breach of Syria\u2019s sovereignty, killing a number of Syrian military\u00a0forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US military earlier alleged that Iran-aligned groups carried out a drone attack\u00a0on a US-occupied base in northeastern Syria.\u00a0A\u00a0US contractor was killed, another was injured, and five US troops were wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the direction of President [Joe] Biden, I authorized US Central Command forces to conduct precision airstrikes tonight in eastern Syria against facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC),&#8221; Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin said in the statement, issued late Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>However, local sources pointed out that the target was not an Iran-aligned military post as the US military claimed, but rather a rural development center and a grain center in Hrabash neighborhood, near Dayr al-Zawr military airport.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, no Iranian was killed in the act of aggression.<\/p>\n<p>A military source in Syria told Press TV that the resistance groups reserve their right to respond to the American attack and will take reciprocal action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2023\/03\/24\/700358\/US-breach-of-Syria%E2%80%99s-sovereignty-multiple-strikes-in-eastern-Syria-\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. contractor was killed, another injured along with five U.S. soldiers in Syria after a drone \u201cof Iranian origin\u201d struck a coalition base. In retaliation, the Pentagon said that the U.S. military carried out &#8220;precision strikes&#8221; on \u201cfacilities used by groups affiliated with Iran\u2019s IRGC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266777,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266769\/revisions\/266777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}