US 闘士，戦闘機 jets strike Iran-linked 場所／位置s in Syria in 報復 for attacks on US 軍隊／機動隊s
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. 闘士，戦闘機 jets 開始する，打ち上げるd airstrikes 早期に Friday on two 場所s in eastern Syria linked to Iran's 革命の Guard 軍団, the 米国防総省 said, in 報復 for a slew of drone and ミサイル attacks against U.S. bases and 職員／兵員 in the 地域 that began 早期に last week.
The strikes 反映する the Biden 行政's 決意 to 持続する a delicate balance. The U.S. wants to 攻撃する，衝突する Iranian-支援するd groups 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd of 的ing the U.S. as 堅固に as possible to 阻止する 未来 侵略, かもしれない 燃料d by イスラエル's war against Hamas, while also working to 避ける inflaming the 地域 and 刺激するing a wider 衝突.
空気／公表する 軍隊 Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said Friday that the strikes 近づく Boukamal by F-16 and F-15 闘士，戦闘機 航空機 的d a 武器s 貯蔵 施設 and 弾薬／武器 貯蔵 施設 used by the IRGC and (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者d groups. "Both 施設s were destroyed," he said. "We 現在／一般に 査定する／（税金などを）課す there were no 死傷者s in the strikes."
A 上級の U.S. 軍の 公式の／役人 said there had been Iranian-提携させるd 民兵 and IRGC 職員／兵員 on the base and no 非軍事のs. The 公式の／役人 would not say how many 軍需品s were 開始する，打ち上げるd by the jets.
A 上級の 弁護 公式の／役人 said the 場所／位置s were chosen because the IRGC 蓄える／店s the types of 軍需品s there that were used in the strikes against U.S. bases and 軍隊／機動隊s. The two 公式の／役人s 簡潔な／要約するd reporters after the strikes on 条件 of anonymity to 供給する 詳細（に述べる）s on the 使節団 that had not yet been made public.
Syrian 対立 行動主義者s 確認するd the U.S. strikes in Syria´s eastern 州 of Deir el-Zour. Omar Abu Layla, a Europe-based 行動主義者 who 長，率いるs the Deir Ezzor 24 マスコミ 出口, said the main 的 was an area known as "the farms" outside the town of Mayadeen. He said it is an important 輸送 場所／位置 where 武器s from Iran are 蓄える／店d before 存在 shipped to Lebanon.
FILE - The al-Tanf 軍の outpost in southern Syria is seen on Oct. 22, 2018. The 米国防総省 says the U.S. 軍の 開始する，打ち上げるd airstrikes 早期に Oct. 27, 2023, on two 場所s in eastern Syria linked to Iran's 革命の Guard 軍団. The strikes come in reta liation for a slew of drone and ミサイル attacks against U.S. bases and 職員／兵員 in the 地域. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor, とじ込み／提出する)
He said the second strike 攻撃する，衝突する an area known as the "green belt" in the Boukamal area that 国境s Iraq. によれば Abu Layla, some people were 避難させるd before the strikes because the 報復 was 推定する／予想するd. The Britain-based Syrian 観測所 for Human 権利s, an 対立 war 監視する, said 救急車s were seen 急ぐing to the area but it wasn't （疑いを）晴らす if there were 死傷者s.
一方／合間 Friday, an Iranian semiofficial news 機関, Tasnim, said gunmen in east Syria 解雇する／砲火／射撃d 10 ロケット／急騰するs on a base 住宅 American 軍隊／機動隊s in 報復 for the U.S. airstrikes. A U.S. 公式の／役人 確認するd the ロケット／急騰する attack and said there were no 報告（する）／憶測d 死傷者s.
And the Islamic 抵抗 in Iraq, an umbrella group for several Iran-支援するd groups, said 闘士，戦闘機s attacked al-Assad airbase in western Iraq with a 自殺 drone. U.S. 公式の／役人s said it was 発射 負かす／撃墜する a few キロメーターs away and did not 攻撃する，衝突する the base.
によれば the 米国防総省, as of Friday there had been at least 20 attacks on U.S. bases and 職員／兵員 in Iraq and Syria since Oct. 17. Ryder said 21 U.S. 職員／兵員 were 負傷させるd in two of those 強襲，強姦s when drones 的d al-Assad airbase in Iraq and al-Tanf 守備隊 in Syria.
In a 声明, 弁護 長官 Lloyd Austin said the "precision self-弁護 strikes are a 返答 to a 一連の 現在進行中の and mostly 不成功の attacks against U.S. 職員／兵員 in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-支援するd 民兵 groups that began on October 17."
In a letter sent Friday to congressional leaders, 大統領 Joe Biden wrote: "The strikes were ーするつもりであるd to 設立する deterrence and were 行為／行うd in a manner to 限界 the 危険 of escalation and 避ける 非軍事の 死傷者s. I directed the strikes ーするために 保護する an d defend our 職員／兵員, to degrade and 混乱に陥れる／中断させる the 現在進行中の 一連の attacks against the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs and our partners, and to 阻止する Iran and Iran-支援するd 民兵 groups from 行為／行うing or supporting その上の attacks on 部隊d 明言する／公表するs 職員／兵員 and 施設s."
The 上級の 弁護 公式の／役人 told reporters that the airstrikes will have a 重要な 衝撃 on the ability of Iranian proxy groups to continue to attack U.S. 軍隊s. Asked what groups were 的d, the 公式の／役人 said there are several that can have different 指名するs, but the U.S. 持つ／拘留するs Tehran 責任がある 基金ing, arming, equipping and directing the proxies. The 公式の／役人 said the airstrikes were not designed to 拡大する the 衝突 in the 地域, but to 強要する Iran to direct the 民兵 groups to 中止する the attacks on American bases and 職員／兵員.
The Biden 行政 has not （刑事）被告 Iran of having a direct 役割 in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on イスラエル and has said it appears so far that Tehran was not aware of it beforehand. But the U.S. has 公式文書，認めるd that Iran has long supported Hamas and has raised 関心s that Iran and its proxies could turn the 衝突 into a wider war.
Austin said the U.S. does not 捜し出す a broader 衝突, but if Iranian proxy groups continue, the U.S. won´t hesitate to take 付加 活動／戦闘 to 保護する its 軍隊s.
によれば the 米国防総省, all the U.S. 職員／兵員 傷つける in the 交戦的な attacks received minor 傷害s and all returned to 義務. In 新規加入, a 請負業者 苦しむd a cardiac 逮捕（する） and died while 捜し出すing 避難所 from a possible drone attack.
The 報復の strikes （機の）カム as no surprise. 公式の／役人s at the 米国防総省 and the White House have made it （疑いを）晴らす for the past week that the U.S. would 答える／応じる, with Ryder 説 again Thursday that it would be "at the time and place of our choosing."
The 最新の 洪水／多発 of strikes by the Iran ian-linked groups （機の）カム in the wake of a deadly 爆発 at a Gaza hospital, 誘発する／引き起こすing 抗議するs in a number of イスラム教徒 nations. The Israeli 軍の has relentlessly attacked Gaza in 報復 for the 破滅的な Hamas rampage in southern イスラエル nearly three weeks ago, but イスラエル has 否定するd 責任／義務 for the al-Ahli hospital 爆破 and the U.S. has said its 知能 査定／評価 設立する that Tel Aviv was not to 非難する.
The U.S., 含むing the 米国防総省, has 繰り返して said any strike 返答 by America would be 直接／まっすぐに tied to the attacks on the 軍隊／機動隊s, who are 焦点（を合わせる）d on the fight against Islamic 明言する／公表する 交戦的なs in the 地域. They said the strikes are not connected to the war between イスラエル and Hamas.
Such 報復 and strikes against Iranian 的s in Syria after 類似の attacks on U.S. bases are 決まりきった仕事.
In March, for example, the U.S. struck 場所／位置s in Syria used by groups (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者d with Iran´s 革命の Guard after an Iranian-linked attack killed a U.S. 請負業者 and 負傷させるd seven other Americans in northeast Syria. American F-15 闘士，戦闘機 jets 飛行機で行くing out of al-Udeid 空気／公表する Base in Qatar struck several 場所s around Deir el-Zour.
U.S. 公式の／役人s have not 公然と tied the 最近の string of attacks in Syria and Iraq to the 暴力／激しさ in Gaza, but Iranian 公式の／役人s have 率直に 非難するd the U.S. for 供給するing 武器s to イスラエル that have been used to strike Gaza, resulting in 非軍事の death.
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Associated 圧力（をかける） writer Bassem Mroue 与える／捧げるd from Beirut.
米国防総省 広報担当者 空気／公表する 軍隊 Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder speaks at the 米国防総省 on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 in Washington. The U.S. 軍の 開始する，打ち上げるd airstrikes 早期に Friday on two 場所s in eastern Syria linked to Iran's 革命の Guard 軍団, the 米国防総省 said, in 報復 for a slew of drone and ミサイル attacks against U.S. bases and 職員／兵員 in the 地域 that began 早期に last week. によれば the 米国防総省, there have been at least 12 attacks on U.S. bases and 職員／兵員 in Iraq and four in Syria since Oct. 17. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
弁護 長官 Lloyd Austin arrives for a 分類するd 要点説明 for 上院議員s on イスラエル and Gaza at the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
