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   From: gay_obama@nytimes.com   
      
   The United States military fired another round of airstrikes on two   
   facilities with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its   
   proxy groups in Eastern Syria Sunday, officials said.   
      
   The latest series of airstrikes ordered by President Biden came in   
   response to sustained attacks against US soldiers on bases in Iraq and   
   Syria, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a statement.   
      
   “The President has no higher priority than the safety of US personnel, and   
   he directed today’s action to make clear that the United States will   
   defend itself, its personnel, and its interests,” Austin said.   
      
   The strikes targeted a training facility near Abu Kamal and a safe house   
   near Mayadin.   
      
   One site included weapons storage, a US official told the Associated   
   Press.   
      
   Militant groups, many backed by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, have   
   targeted almost 50 bases housing US personnel in Iraq and Syria since Oct.   
   17.   
      
   So far, 56 US personnel have been injured –- a combination of traumatic   
   brain injury and other minor wounds – in the attacks, but all have   
   returned to duty.   
      
   Sunday’s airstrikes are the third time in two weeks the US has retaliated   
   against militants in Middle Eastern countries for the attacks on bases.   
      
   Violence in the region has ramped up since the Oct. 7 attack carried out   
   by Hamas against Israel. In response, the Jewish state has launched a   
   retaliatory military campaign against the terror group in Gaza.   
      
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