The US military launched multiple airstrikes on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria on Friday. According to reports, the strikes focused on command and control nodes, ammunition dumps, and other facilities. The attacks are in response to the attack on the Tower-22 base in Jordan on Sunday that left three American soldiers dead and over forty wounded.

In anticipation of retaliation, all US bases in the region are on a heightened state of alert.

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