Last night’s US strikes in Iraq and Syria reportedly killed 39 people.
The US says it targeted Iran-backed militias in retaliation for the drone strike in Jordan earlier this week that killed three American soldiers.
In Syria, the strikes killed 23 people who had been guarding the targeted locations, says Rami Abdulrahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which reports on war in Syria.
The organization, run by a single person, has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of false and inaccurate reporting.
Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, a state security force including Iran-backed groups, says 16 of its members were killed, including fighters and medics.
An Iraqi government statement says the areas bombed by US aircraft included places where Iraqi security forces are stationed near civilian locations. It says 23 people were wounded in addition to 16 killed.
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