US will not back off Syria mission despite deadly attacks – White House
The United States will not back away from its nearly eight-year-old deployment to Syria, where it is battling the remnants of Daesh, despite attacks on US forces there last week by Iran-backed militia, the White House said on Monday, Reuters reports. A one-way attack drone struck a US base in Syria on 23 March, killing an American contractor, injuring another and wounding five US troops. That triggered US retaliatory air strikes and […]
