More drones and rockets were fired at US bases in Iraq and Syria on Sunday and Monday, bringing the total number of attacks on US troops since October 17 to 38.
The attacks started in response to the US’s support for Israel’s onslaught in Gaza and show no sign of waning. Pentagon officials said on Monday that at least 45 US troops have been injured in the spate of attacks.
The total number of injuries is more than twice what the Pentagon has previously reported. The US military is monitoring about two dozen US service members who may be suffering from traumatic brain injuries due to the attacks.
On October 27, the US launched airstrikes in eastern Syria against Iranian-linked targets in order to “deter” more attacks. But US bases in the region came under fire 19 more times since then.
An umbrella group of militias that calls itself the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has taken credit for many of the attacks on US bases. The US has blamed Iran for the attacks due to its support for Shia militias in the region, although there’s no evidence Tehran is directing the attacks.
On Sunday, Iran’s defense minister warned the US it should reach a ceasefire in Gaza. “Our advice to the Americans is to immediately end this war and implement a ceasefire, otherwise they will be hit hard,” said Defense Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani. “We have always recommended the Americans not to support the Zionist regime.”
guess climate change is off the menu.
To fossil fuel corporations glee. Drill baby drill!!
Gee; if true, then maybe we should get the hell OUT of there. Iraq doesn’t want us, and has told us to leave; and Syria actively opposes our illegal occupation of their territory. Even TURKEY, our NATO ally, wants us gone. But we stay, and cry “poor us” when we hear things go BOOM in the night (in a fucking war zone).
It’s not like we’re adverse to running away; we do it all the time; we should be getting good at it. Let’s DO IT AGAIN.
Unless I hear U.S. body count in those attacks, it’s like a school girl yelling: at kids not to pull on her hair.
Agreed. 38 “attacks” injuring 45 troops and inflicting a heart attack on one contractor… Anyone else asking if the “Iranian backed” Iraqi, Syrian, ISIS, or otherwise terrorists are attacking us with fireworks–not actually weapons?
I think our “occupation forces” consist entirely of Karens, who “call the police” every time they see or hear something “scary”.
LOL. “Karens” seem to be everywhere. It’s like the zombie apocalypse, but with “Karens.”
Good… We have no business being there, other than theft.
And,that is not good.
What’s with all of the “traumatic brain injuries” that our troops are suffering from Iranian weapons? I first heard about this when Iran retaliated for our murder of Suliemani (?). Do the Iranians have a new weapon that we have been told about?
The increase in “traumatic brain injury” is more likely an increase in reporting than an increase in occurrence. Large explosions nearby tend to ring your cranial bell.
I suspect if a large cross-section of combat arms veterans — even ones who never saw actual combat — was examined, there’d be plenty of chronic traumatic encephalopathy and such. I spent a decade standing around eight-gun batteries of 81mm mortars going off all the time. The only IMMEDIATE ill effect of that was if for some reason I didn’t have my earplugs in, I’d be deaf for a little bit (and I’m a little hard of hearing long-term). But you could feel the shock going through your body. I suspect someone being in the middle of the receiving end of a barrage would get a lot more than that.
If you do not lob a grenade far enough away, it does have an effect.
Get US troops out of the middle east.