Air Strike on Syria The US has struck Iranian Targets in Syria, after a Drone Attack killed a US Contractor

The Pentagon has announced that the U.S. Military has launched a retaliatory airstrike against targets in eastern Syria after an American Contractor was killed and 6 other people were injured including 5 U.S. service members. The attack was carried out by unmanned aerial drones on a facility in the northeast part of the country.

Lloyd Austin, U.S. Defense Secretary said Central Command Forces conducted "precision airstrikes" on targets in eastern Syria who are connected with the Iranian Revolutionary

Guard Corps. The Pentagon said the U.S. intelligence source had concluded that the drone that killed the contractor was made in Iran. Lloyd Austin said, "The airstrikes were conducted in response to today's attack as well as a series of recent attacks against Coalition forces in Syria by groups affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps."

One report said that 4 people died as a result of the U.S. airstrike, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll at 11.

None of the reports have been confirmed by The Associated Press and the U.S. has has not announced any deaths so far.

According to the Israeli newspaper Maariv, satellite intelligence photographs from an attack in Syria on March 12th shows the strike had hit entrances to the underground tunnels where materials needed to make surface to surface missiles were stored. The attack took place near the city of Tartus, which was connected to Israel, reportedly killed 2 soldiers of the pro Iran militias and 3 soldiers of the Syrian military.