The Pentagon said a US contractor was killed when a suspected Iranian drone struck a facility on a coalition base in northeast Syria on Thursday.
The US has carried out airstrikes on targets backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard in Syria following a deadly attack on a coalition base.
Mr Austin said the airstrikes were conducted in response to Thursday's drone attack"as well as a series of recent attacks against coalition forces in Syria" by groups affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard.Footage on social media appears to show explosions in Syria's Deir el-Zour, a strategic province that borders Iraq and contains oil fields.
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been suspected of using bomb-carrying drones to carry out attacks across the wider Middle East.
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