AFP melder at USA nå angriper Iranske mål i Irak og Syria - AFP / CNN / Sky News

 

Saken oppdateres, men lite er ute om saken akkurat nå; hvilke mål og hvor, etc. USA har lovet gjengjeldelse etter angrepet på basen Tower 22 i syria.

Siste nytt fra CNN: http://tinyurl.com/2rebvezw

Pettagon sier nå kl 2245 at mer enn 85 mål er angrepet og at det er benyttet langdistnse bombefly fra USA: 

Sky News:

Analysis: Bombing will likely continue for multiple nights - and Israel may be involved

This won't just be one strike, but a so-called campaign of bombing over several nights, US correspondent Mark Stone has said.

There is some suggestion that some of those in Syria were carried out by Israel, he added.

Explosions reported earlier took place in the east of Syria, 300 miles north of Tower 22 where three US soldiers were killed, said Stone.

Syrian state media has reported a number of casualties.

"I think there will be a few nights of bombing trying to reestablish deterrence and to take out Iranian proxies in the region," said Stone.

The US has made clear that "what we will see in the coming days is a tiered reaction".

"It won't just be one strike, it will be a campaign, as some here in America are describing it."

He continued: "But this is not, as some on the right of politics here in America wanted to see, indeed Donald Trump himself, striking back at Iran itself. That at the moment is not on the cards."

Stone added: "This is a very, very, very delicate moment."

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9m ago22:43 US military forces 'struck more than 85 targets' and used '125 precision munitions'

US Central Command has released more detail about the strikes, saying it has hit more than 85 targets.

In a post on X, it said the strikes were conducted at 4pm Eastern time (9pm UK time) in Iraq and Syria against Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia groups.

The strikes "employed more than 125 precision munitions" and involved several including long-range bombers flown from the US, it said.