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The Pentagon says a US warplane kills multiple Iranian-backed militiamen in Iraq after they fired a short-range ballistic missile at American and allied personnel in the country. "This self-defense strike resulted in some hostile fatalities," Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
A US contractor was killed and five American service members, plus another US contractor were injured after a drone struck a military base in northeast Syria, the Pentagon says. "A US contractor was killed and five US service members and one additional US contractor were wounded after a one-way unmanned aerial vehicle struck a maintenance facility on a coalition base near Hasakah in northeast Syria," says Press Secretary Brigadier General Pat Ryder. SOUNDBITE
Lebanon's Hezbollah group says an Israeli raid on a residential building in Damascus killed Lebanese militant Samir Qantar. Natasha Howitt reports.
The Pentagon confirmed on Tuesday that the leader of al-Qaeda splinter organization the Khorasan group was killed earlier this month, Reuters reported.Muhsin al-Fadhli, part of the terrorist group Khorasan, was traveling on July 8 near Sarmada, a town in northwestern Syria close to the Turkish border when a U.S. drone targeted and struck his vehicle.
The Pentagon releases video purporting to show coalition air strikes on an armored vehicle and a fighting position in Syria. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).