US missile barrage on targets in Iraq and Syria after US soldiers killed
US military claimed 85 targets hit at seven locations after three US soldiers were killed in Jordan, allegedly by Iran-backed militias.
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00:00 The US military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria overnight
00:05 on Friday in retaliation for the killing of three US soldiers in Jordan by an Islamist
00:11 militia group connected to Iran. Just hours after President Biden watched the US soldiers'
00:17 coffins return home, the strikes hit more than 85 targets at seven locations, including
00:22 command and control centres and drone and ammunition storage sites, according to the
00:27 US military. Meanwhile in Gaza on Friday, at least 17 people were killed in two separate
00:33 airstrikes overnight in Rafa on the border with Egypt, according to hospital officials.
00:39 Hundreds of thousands of Gazans have fled towards the town as the Israeli offensive
00:43 has moved ever further south in Gaza. At the UN satellite centre, UNISAT has released a
00:48 damage assessment of Gaza showing that nearly every third building in the region has been
00:53 hit. It says around 22,000 buildings have been destroyed.
00:57 [WHOOSH]