{"id":186158,"date":"2021-03-02T08:29:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T13:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=186158"},"modified":"2021-03-02T08:38:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T13:38:43","slug":"syria-airstrikes-sent-very-strong-signal-pentagon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/syria-airstrikes-sent-very-strong-signal-pentagon-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria Airstrikes Sent \u2018Very Strong Signal,\u2019 Pentagon Says"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fsyria-airstrikes-sent-very-strong-signal-pentagon-says%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=186158&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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-airstrikes\">airstrikes<\/a> launched against militants in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-syria\">Syria<\/a> last week sent a \u201cvery strong signal,\u201d the Pentagon said Monday, rebutting claims by militant groups that the strikes had no real effect on them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t seen those comments, I would go back to what I said last week: that this was really designed to do two things, to remove that compound from their utilization of it as an entry control point from Syria into Iraq, and to send a very strong signal that we\u2019re not going to tolerate attacks on our people and Iraqi partners,\u201d John Kirby, the Pentagon\u2019s chief spokesman, told reporters during a press briefing in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The United States on Feb. 25 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-strikes-facilities-in-syria-used-by-iran-backed-militia-in-retaliatory-action_3711989.html\">launched strikes<\/a> in eastern Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby said shortly after the strikes struck that they were authorized by President Joe Biden \u201cin response to recent attacks against American and coalition personnel in Iraq, and to ongoing threats to those personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One attack was a rocket strike on an airport near Erbil 10 days prior\u00a0in Iraq\u2019s semi-autonomous Kurdish-run region. That launch injured six people, including a U.S. service member, and killed a civilian contractor.<\/p>\n<p>According to the United States, the retaliatory strikes destroyed buildings used by Iranian-backed groups including Kait-ib Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3717137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/syria-closer-1200x737-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A view of destroyed buildings at an Iraq-Syria border crossing before airstrikes are seen on Feb. 3, 2021. (Satellite image (copyright) 2021 Maxar Technologies\/Handout via Reuters)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3717138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/syria-strikes-2-1200x782-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A close up view of destroyed buildings at an Iraq-Syria border crossing after airstrikes are seen on Feb. 26, 2021. (Satellite image (copyright) 2021 Maxar Technologies\/Handout via Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>In comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/reports\/telegram-iran-backed-militias-iraq-react-us-airstrike-its-sites-syria-airstrike-took-place\">translated by<\/a> the Middle East Media Research Institute, militants downplayed the impact of the strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Unnamed militants, for instance, told Sabereen News that the strikes targeted an empty building and killed only one fighter.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby said the latest intelligence indicates one militia member was killed and two others were wounded. He also said the strikes took out nine buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Congress decried the attacks, including several Democrats, noting Congress didn\u2019t grant approval for the military action. But the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/congress-to-get-full-classified-briefing-on-syria-strike-next-week-white-house_3713014.html\">said<\/a> congressional leaders were notified prior to the strikes, while Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-syria-airstrikes-tell-iran-you-cant-act-with-impunity_3713551.html\">said<\/a> the message sent to Iran was \u201cyou can\u2019t act with impunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both the White House and military officials have defended the strikes as an appropriate measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis proportionate military response was conducted together with diplomatic measures, including consultation with Coalition partners. The operation sends an unambiguous message: President Biden will act to protect American and Coalition personnel. At the same time, we have acted in a deliberate manner that aims to de-escalate the overall situation in both eastern Syria and Iraq,\u201d Kirby said in a statement last week.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Congress were slated to take part in a classified briefing early this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airstrikes launched against militants in Syria last week sent a \u201cvery strong signal,\u201d the Pentagon said Monday, rebutting claims by militant groups that the strikes had no real effect &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/syria-closer-1200x737-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Syria Airstrikes Sent \u2018Very Strong Signal,\u2019 Pentagon Says","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/syria-closer-1200x737-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Syria Airstrikes Sent \u2018Very Strong Signal,\u2019 Pentagon Says","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186158","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}