National Security

Three months after assigned as border czar Harris will visit the border

Published

2 years ago

June 23, 2021

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By Jenny Goldsberry

After several reporters pressed her, Vice President Kamala Harris finally announced that she will be visiting the border personally this Friday. This comes after over 90 days since Harris became the border czar.

The White House confirmed she will visit El Paso, Texas alongside Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. This is the same facility where congressional delegation was previously denied access into.

Previously, Harris defended not visiting the border admits the crisis by saying she was working on the root causes of migration. Mayorkas has visited the border several times since his nomination. The Vice President told reporters “we’ve been to the border” in reference to his visits. But now, she will finally see it for herself.”

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Middle East

US responds to Iranian drone strike that killed US contractor with “precision airstrikes”

Published

19 hours ago

March 24, 2023

Alexander Carter

The U.S. military launched multiple precision airstrikes in Syria, leaving at least 8 Iranians dead in response to the Iranian drone strike which left a US contractor dead and five service members injured, according to numerous reports.

The DOD said that a UAV belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps crashed into a building in northeast Syria at 1:38 p.m. According to a Fox News report, the “U.S. airstrike at an arms depot in Harabesh, in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour left six Iranian-backed fighters dead. A second U.S. bombing at a post near the town of Mayadeen killed another two fighters, according to the Observatory, whose reporting relies on local Syrian contacts.”

U.S. intelligence officials stated that they were able to trace the UAV back to Iran. After President Biden received the details of the strike he gave the authorization to conduct a counter attack.

Moreover, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said, “at the direction of the President, I authorized U.S. Central Command forces to conduct precision airstrikes tonight in eastern Syria against facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC),” he said.

“The airstrikes were conducted in response to today’s attack as well as a series of recent attacks against Coalition forces in Syria by groups affiliated with the IRGC,” he added.

General Michael Kurilla, Commander of CENTCOM (United States Central Command), also stated that the airstrikes were in response to the attack on an American contractor and wounded troops.

“This evening, we responded to an attack on our forces that killed an American contractor and wounded our troops and another American contractor by striking facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” Krill said. “This was another in a series of attacks on our troops and partner forces.”

He shared his condolences with the families by stating that “thoughts and prayers of US Central Command are with the Family of our contractor killed and with our wounded service members and contractor.”

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