Good evening. I'm on the Navas and I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight.

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on American troops.

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You've got to get boots on the ground and we've got to make a significant

investment in boots on the ground. Welcome to the news hour. The US has started a series of military strikes

against Iranian-backed militias in both Syria and Iraq tonight.

The bombing is in retaliation for an attack last weekend that killed three American soldiers

and wounded dozens of others in Jordan.

Nick Schifrin has been reporting on these fast-moving developments and joins us here now.

So Nick, what's the latest?

What can you tell us?

The U.S. military said it used 125 munitions on more than 85 targets across seven locations in Iraq and Syria.

And the targets included command and control and intelligence centers as well as storage facilities

with missiles, rockets, drones that these groups have been using

to target U.S. soldiers.

The National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said just a few minutes ago that these targets

were specifically connected to attacks to U.S. troops in the region.

There have been more than 160 attacks on U.S. troops across Iraq and Syria,

including the one this weekend that killed three U.S. soldiers. But the targets tonight went

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