{"id":1190732,"date":"2022-01-05T12:51:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1190732"},"modified":"2022-01-05T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:51:17","slug":"war-president-u-s-conducts-strikes-on-syria-targeting-seven-rocket-sites-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/war-president-u-s-conducts-strikes-on-syria-targeting-seven-rocket-sites-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"WAR PRESIDENT? U.S. Conducts Strikes On Syria, Targeting Seven Rocket Sites: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwar-president-u-s-conducts-strikes-on-syria-targeting-seven-rocket-sites-reports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1190732&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S. military on Tuesday conducted strikes on rocket sites in Syria after \u201cindirect fire posed what a U.S.-led coalition official called \u2018an imminent threat\u2019 to American troops,\u201d according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndirect fire attacks pose a serious threat to innocent civilians because of their lack of discrimination,\u201d the Operation Inherent Resolve official said in a statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/04\/politics\/us-strikes-syria\/index.html\">according<\/a> to CNN. The U.S. troops are stationed at Green Village, a base in the east of the country near the Iraqi border.<\/p>\n<p>The report said \u201cthe U.S. is not officially confirming it conducted the strikes,\u201d but added that \u201ca defense official with direct knowledge noted that only US forces in that area have weapons capable of carrying out these kinds of strikes.\u201d The strikes destroyed the seven Katyusha rocket sites that were targeted, CNN said.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press also <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-middle-east-syria-john-kirby-6a62001de643296bb3eefda14ed81c92\">said<\/a> the strikes \u201capparently were conducted by U.S. forces, but a statement issued by the coalition did not specify who carried them out. The statement offered few details beyond saying the sites \u2018posed an imminent threat in the vicinity of Green Village, Syria,\u2019 and were struck in self defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. troops in the region have been seeing threats from Iranian-backed militias, according to Pentagon press secretary John Kirby. \u201cIn just the last few days, there have been acts perpetrated by some of these groups that validate the consistent concerns that we\u2019ve had over the safety and security of our people,\u201d Kirby said at a press briefing Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Tuesday, the U.S. military shot down two \u201csuicide\u201d drones as they approached Ain al-Asad Air Base in Iraq, according to the Iraqi Prime Minister\u2019s Office. The attack came just days after the anniversary of the U.S. assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Qasem Soleimani at the same base targeted by Iranian missiles two years ago .<\/p>\n<p>And on Sunday, a region near Baghdad airport where U.S. troops had been was targeted in a failed attack.<\/p>\n<p>Syria, where the U.S. has nearly 1,000 troops, has also been targeted. \u201cIn October, a \u2018deliberate and coordinated\u2019 attack using multiple drones targeted US forces at the At-Tanf base in Syria near the borders with Iraq and Jordan,\u201d CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden last year pulled U.S. troops out of Afghanistan in a disastrous move that drew scorn from members of both major political parties. The long-running mission in Iraq was also pared back, which Kirby said is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t stay at this mission \u2026 this new mission \u2026 with any illusions that our people are under any less threat by these militia groups,\u201d Kirby said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to stay focused on that threat as we stay focused on the mission at hand and make sure that we\u2019re doing everything we can to protect our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military on Tuesday conducted strikes on rocket sites in Syria after \u201cindirect fire posed what a U.S.-led coalition official called \u2018an imminent threat\u2019 to American troops,\u201d according to a new report. \u201cIndirect fire attacks pose a serious threat to innocent civilians because of their lack of discrimination,\u201d the Operation Inherent Resolve official said &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}