The Pentagon announced on Thursday that six American military men were injured in separate strikes by Iranian-backed terrorists in Syria last week, resulting in traumatic brain damage. The initial toll from the attacks, according to the Pentagon, was one American contractor dead and seven Americans injured.
Brigadier General Patrick S. Ryder, a spokesman for the Military, told reporters on Thursday that further injuries had been discovered during routine scans in recent days.
The Pentagon has made efforts in recent years to learn more about traumatic brain injuries and how they affect military personnel because these injuries can result in permanent physical or mental impairments.
Two separate episodes led to the diagnosis. On March 23, a civilian contractor working as a vehicle mechanic was killed when a self-destructing drone attacked a coalition base in northeast Syria.
Later that day, two US F-15E fighter jets reacted with bombings against militant targets associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Eight militants, according to General Ryder, were killed in that attack.
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Another American was hurt the next day in a barrage of rocket and drone attacks by Iranian-backed militants. Late on Friday, a senior U.S. official said the White House chose to delay launching a second wave of retaliatory strikes by U.S. airplanes.
After a deadly five-year struggle across Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State was ostensibly defeated as a caliphate in 2019, but the United States still retains around 900 troops and hundreds more contractors in Syria, fighting alongside Kurdish forces to prevent a rebirth of the group.
Since the Biden administration has been preoccupied with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a possible future battle with China, the military effort to counter Islamic State in Syria has taken a backseat.
Only when Iranian-backed militias or Islamic State terrorists have targeted the few bases where U.S. forces rotate in and out has the mission garnered more attention. It’s a delicate balancing act for the Biden administration.
Vice President Biden has made it quite apparent that he is not interested in renewing the nation’s commitment to the “forever wars” that dominated the public consciousness for the first two decades of this century.
Obama ordered the United States military to leave Afghanistan in 2021 and has kept them out of Ukraine, instead directing their attention to Asia and the possibility of great-power wars with Russia and China.
The United States claims to have ended its protracted hostilities in the Middle East and Afghanistan, with the exception of Syria, where Iranian-backed militias have carried out hundreds of strikes on or near sites housing US troops over the past year.
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