{"id":565282,"date":"2023-03-24T11:45:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T06:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=565282"},"modified":"2023-03-24T11:45:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T06:15:32","slug":"contractor-killed-in-syria-drone-strike-us-strikes-back-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/contractor-killed-in-syria-drone-strike-us-strikes-back-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractor killed in Syria drone strike; US strikes back: Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. contractor was killed and five U.S. service members and one other U.S. contractor were wounded when a suspected Iranian drone struck a facility on a coalition base in northeast Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released late Thursday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said U.S. Central Command forces retaliated with \u201cprecision airstrikes\u201d against facilities in eastern Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard. The Defense Department said the intelligence community had determined the unmanned aerial vehicle was of Iranian origin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe airstrikes were conducted in response to today\u2019s attack as well as a series of recent attacks against Coalition forces in Syria&#8221; by groups affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard, Austin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. contractor was killed and five U.S. service members and one other U.S. contractor were wounded when a suspected Iranian drone struck a facility on a coalition base in northeast Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon said. In a statement released late Thursday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said U.S. Central Command forces retaliated with \u201cprecision airstrikes\u201d against facilities in eastern Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard. The Defense Department said the intelligence community had determined the unmanned aerial vehicle was of Iranian origin. \u201cThe airstrikes were conducted in response to today\u2019s attack as well as a series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}