U.S. military forces struck two bases in Syria in what the Pentagon said was a move to deter Iran-backed militias from broadening the conflict in the Middle East, while Israeli ground forces conducted an incursion into the Gaza Strip for the second consecutive day ahead of a widely-anticipated ground war.
The overnight U.S. strikes, authorized by President Biden, were the first American response to what Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said were a number of attacks against U.S. personnel and facilities in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militias over the past two weeks. The Pentagon said the bases hit were used by such militias and described the strikes as self-defense measures separate from its military support for Israel.
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