“A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded 5 American troops and one other contractor in northeast Syria, the Pentagon stated. American forces stated they retaliated quickly after with ‘precision airstrikes’ in Syria focusing on services utilized by teams affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, with one activist group reporting the U.S. strikes killed fighters on the bottom,” the AP reviews.

“The assault and the U.S. response threaten to upend current efforts to deescalate tensions throughout the broader Center East, whose rival powers have made steps towards détente in current days following years of turmoil.”

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