The United States advised the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that it focused Iran-backed militia in Syria and Iraq with airstrikes to discourage the militants and Tehran from conducting or supporting additional assaults on U.S. personnel or amenities.
Under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, the 15-member Security Council should instantly be told of any motion that states absorb self-defense in opposition to armed assault.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, mentioned the airstrikes hit amenities utilized by militia blamed for an escalating collection of drone and rocket assaults in opposition to U.S. personnel and amenities in Iraq.
“This military response was taken after non-military options proved inadequate to address the threat, with the aim of deescalating the situation and preventing further attacks,” she wrote in a letter, seen by Reuters.
President Joe Biden wrote the same letter to Congress on Tuesday.
“The United States stands ready to take further action, as necessary and appropriate, to address further threats or attacks,” he mentioned.U.S. troops got here beneath rocket hearth in Syria on Monday in obvious retaliation for weekend U.S. air strikes.
About 34 rockets have been fired within the assault, however there have been no accidents, a U.S. army official mentioned on Tuesday.
While the Iraqi and U.S. militaries coordinate intently in a separate battle in Iraq in opposition to remnants of the Sunni extremist group Islamic State, Iraq’s authorities and army condemned the U.S. airstrikes in opposition to the Iran-back militia.
The United States started airstrikes in opposition to Islamic State in Syria in 2014, telling the United Nations it acted as a result of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s authorities had did not wipe out protected havens utilized by the militants to launch assaults on Iraq.
Iraq advised the U.N. Security Council on the time that it requested U.S. assist as a result of a protected haven for the militants in Syria had made its border “impossible to defend.”
