The U.S. military carried out airstrikes in Syria after an American contractor was killed and five service members wounded when a drone it said was of Iranian origin crashed into a coalition base.
The targets of the airstrikes, according to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, were “facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps,” in comments late Thursday.
The strikes comes as diplomacy intensifies over Syria’s war, which has entered its 12th year and has drawn in Russia, Iran, the U.S. and Turkey.
