The United States destroyed or damaged 84 of 85 targets in its wide-ranging series of airstrikes Friday in Syria and Iraq, according to two American defense officials, with no indication of Iranian casualties.
All but one of the 85 targets were “destroyed or functionally damaged,” officials said, citing a preliminary assessment of battlefield damage.
A full post-strike analysis is still underway, but an official said there is no indication that members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed as part of the operations.
President Joe Biden told reporters traveling with him to Nevada on Sunday that the strikes are working to deter and disrupt militant groups' operations in the region.
In response to a drone strike that killed three U.S. service members and injured dozens more in Jordan last weekend, the United States attacked facilities and weapons used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and militias backed by Iran in Iraq and Syria.
It was the first time the United States carried out attacks on both countries simultaneously. In Iraq, the United States attacked Al Qaim and Akashat near the Syrian border. And in Syria, the United States attacked near al-Barum, Deir ez-Zur and al-Mayadin. The list of targets included command and control centers, intelligence centers, rockets, missiles, drone storage facilities and more.
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