China News Service, Beijing, February 4 Comprehensive news: According to foreign media 3**, the US military recently launched airstrikes on Iraq and Syria that have killed 39 people.
According to the report of the U.S. ** Command, at 16 o'clock EST on the 2nd, the U.S. military launched an airstrike on Iran-related organizations in Iraq and Syria, using more than 125 precision munitions, and more than 85 targets were hit, including command centers, ** warehouses, logistics facilities, etc.
According to the Iraqi News Agency, the Iraqi militia armed "Popular Mobilization Organization" issued a statement on the 3rd, saying that the US military launched airstrikes on a number of headquarters and camps of the organization, killing 16 people and injuring 36 others.
Iraq said on the 3rd that it had summoned the U.S. Chargé d'affaires in Baghdad, Iraq, and handed over a note to the U.S. military in this round of attacks.
Reuters said on 3** that the London-based "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" said that 23 people were killed in the US military's airstrikes on Syria.
According to the Syrian Arab News Agency, the U.S. military launched airstrikes in many parts of Syria, causing power outages in many areas, and the Lahba Citadel, located in the Deir ez-Zor area, which dates back to the ninth century AD, was also damaged.
Iraq, Syria, Russia, Iran, Cuba and other countries have spoken out to condemn the US attack. The Russian Satellite News Agency reported that at the request of the Russian side, the United Nations Security Council plans to hold a meeting on the 5th of New York time on the US air strikes on Iraq and Syria.
The Associated Press pointed out that the large-scale air raid by the US military was in retaliation for the death of US soldiers stationed in Jordan. In January, a drone attack on a U.S. military base in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border killed three U.S. soldiers and injured more than 40. (ENDS).