Robert Wilkie, former Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness during the Trump administration, told Newsmax on Friday that Iran’s use of proxies to attack U.S. interests in Syria is a direct result of a “schizophrenic” foreign policy from the Biden administration.
On Thursday, Iranian-backed militias were responsible for a drone attack on a coalition base near Hasakah in northeastern Syria. A U.S. contractor was killed, and six other Americans were wounded.
On Friday, there were two simultaneous strikes on U.S. troops in Syria, resulting in one injury to an American. The U.S. has about 900 troops in northern Syria and hundreds of contractors working with Kurdish fighters to keep the fledgling Islamic State from resurging.
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