Important Takeaways:
- Iranian proxies have continued to attack US troops despite Syria strike
- U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria were attacked multiple times by Iranian-backed proxies in the 24-hour period after U.S. forces conducted airstrikes against an Iranian-linked facility in Syria.
- Three U.S. troops were injured in the four attacks, one against U.S. troops in Iraq and three in Syria, that occurred following the U.S. strike on Wednesday, deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters. Two of them suffered traumatic brain injuries, and one suffered a noncritical non-TBI injury, though all three have since returned to duty.
- Two U.S. F-15s conducted airstrikes against what the Department of Defense described as a weapons storage facility used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in eastern Syria on Wednesday.
- This was the second such instance of U.S. forces carrying out strikes on IRGC-affiliated forces, though neither has convinced the proxies to cease their attacks against U.S. troops, as evidenced by the latest attacks. U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria that are there to counter ISIS have been attacked 46 times by Iranian proxies in the region since Oct. 17.
- In total, 56 people have been injured in the attacks since mid-October, though all of them have returned to duty
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