29 Dec 2019
Military.com | By Richard Sisk
U.S. forces have launched strikes on five Iranian-backed militia positions in Iraq and Syria Sunday following a series of rocket attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq, including one that killed an American contractor and wounded four U.S. troops.
The “defensive strikes” on facilities of the Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) facilities were intended to “degrade KH’s ability to conduct future attacks against” the U.S. and coalition forces, Jonathan Hoffman, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, said in a statement.
He said the three KH locations in Iraq and two in Syria that were hit included weapons depots and command and control positions that the militia group had used to plan and execute a series of recent attacks on friendly bases in Iraq.