US begins retaliatory airstrikes in Syria after killing of soldiers in Jordan: reports

The US military has begun striking targets linked to Iranian proxy groups in Syria after a drone attack killed three American soldiers in Jordan this past weekend.

The strikes, reported by ABC News and Fox News Channel, began a little more than an hour after the conclusion of a dignified transfer ceremony honoring the three soldiers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware Friday afternoon.

The US has blamed the Islamic Resistance in Iraq umbrella group for the weekend attack that killed Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, and wounded approximately 40 other American service members.

With nearly a week passing between the attack and the US response, critics of the Biden administration have warned that the delay has given Iranian military officials and members of Tehran-backed militia groups ample time to go into hiding.