The United States has conducted airstrikes near the Syrian-Iraqi border targeting three "operational and weapons storage facilities" with two being in Syria and one in Iraq. The facilities were operated by the Iranian-backed militias known as Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, both of whom have relations to the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Front. Estimates range between four and seven Iranian-backed militia fighters being killed with the Syrian government citing that one child was also killed in the airstrikes.
The above two groups were targeted back in February as a reprisal for a militia rocket attack on a US facility which resulted in the death of a US employed Filipino contractor. Kataib Hezbollah was designated a terrorist organization back in 2009 and is responsible for numerous attacks on US forces in the Middle East. Their leaderm Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, was killed in the same operation that ended the life of top Iranian General Qassim Soleimani.
The militias threaten revenge after facilities in Iraq and Syria linked to drone attacks are bombed.
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