A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian -made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded five American troops and another contractor in northeast Syria , the Pentagon said.
American forces said they retaliated soon after with “precision airstrikes” in Syria targeting facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, with activist groups saying they killed at least four people.
The attack and the U.S. response threaten to upend recent efforts to deescalate tensions across the wider Middle East, whose rival powers have made steps toward détente in recent days after years of turmoil.
However, much of the current peace effort may be at the expense of U.S. and western pro-democratic influence. The burgeoning wartime alliance of Russia and China has brought both Iran and Syria into their gravitational pull, as well as one-time U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia , which was insulted […]
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