The US has begun a wave of retaliatory airstrikes targeting militants in Iraq and Syria, officials have told the Associated Press, Reuters and NBC News.
The initial strikes were carried out by manned and unmanned aircraft hitting command and control headquarters, ammunition storage and other facilities, AP has reported.
They come in response to a drone attack in Jordan that killed three US troops and injured some 40 others on Sunday.
The US blamed the attack on the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of Iranian-backed militias.
Iran-backed militia groups throughout the region have used the conflict between Israel and Hamas to justify striking US facilities at least 166 times.
People killed at ‘number of sites’ – Syrian state TV
In its first response to the strikes, Syrian state TV has said people have been killed and wounded at “a number of sites” at Badia – the Syrian desert – and the Syrian-Iraqi border.
US network NBC News is reporting that the Syrian channel has said that there are “martyrs and wounded as a result of the American aggression”.
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