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Updated Friday, February 2, 2024-22:18
The United States military has launched airstrikes against
targets in Syria
as part of its retaliation for the deaths of three American soldiers at a base in Jordan, the press reported this Friday.
These bombings, reported on ABC and Fox News, occurred shortly after
Joe Biden
presided over the arrival in the United States of the mortal remains of the three soldiers killed on Sunday. At the moment the Pentagon has not made any announcement.
The reception took place at the Air Force military base
in Dover (Delaware)
and the first lady of the United States,
Jill Biden,
and the head of the Pentagon,
Lloyd Austin, also participated in the event.
This is the second ceremony of this type that Biden attends as president after he participated in 2021 in the reception of
13 soldiers killed in a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport.
The coffins of Sergeants
William Rivers, Breonna Moffett and Kennedy Sanders,
all from the southern state of Georgia, arrived at the Dover base aboard a large Lockheed C-5 Galaxy military transport aircraft.
Six soldiers carried the coffins, each draped with an American flag, from the C-5 Galaxy to a hearse van.
The president and the military delegation stood silently with their hands on their foreheads on the landing strip while the military moved the coffins one by one.
The ceremony ended when another soldier closed the doors of the vehicle.
The attack in which the three Americans died occurred last Sunday and was
claimed by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.
This group has orchestrated dozens of attacks against the US since the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip broke out after the Hamas attacks on October 7, although they had not caused any fatalities as of Sunday.
The US soldiers did not repel the drone attack because they mistook the device for their own that was returning to the military base at that time. EFE