The United States has carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria against buildings belonging to what the Pentagon said were Iran-backed militias responsible for recent attacks against American and allied personnel in Iraq.

The strikes were said to be in response to a rocket attack on Feb. 15 on the airport in Erbil, in northern Iraq, which killed a contractor with the American-led military coalition and wounded six others, including a Louisiana National Guard soldier and four American contractors.

The attack on the Erbil airport was claimed by a little-known group called Awliya al Dam, or Guardian of the Blood, brigades. The group also had claimed responsibility for two bombings against U.S. contractor convoys previously.

US military officials said the strikes were a relatively small military response with seven 500-pound bombs dropped on a small cluster of buildings at an unofficial crossing at the Syria-Iraq border allegedly used to smuggle across weapons and fighters.

The strikes were just over the border in Syria. Officials said the American retaliation was meant to punish the perpetrators of the rocket attack but not to escalate hostilities with Iran.

American officials said the attack had killed a “handful” of militia, but the Pentagon did not provide any detailed assessment of the damage.

The air strikes raise the question of what the new US administration’s red lines are when it comes to responding to attacks from Iranian-backed militias that target Americans in Iraq.

The United States military has pulled out of several bases in Iraq over the past two years and drawn down the number of its troops there to under 2,500.

Iran has made clear that it intends to retaliate further for the American drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020 that killed top Iranian commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani.

The Biblical prophecies (Matthew 24, Luke 21) foretell that there will be wars and rumors of wars in the Last Days signaling the world is nearing the end of this age.

These events and conditions happening now are warning signs pointing to the nearing fulfillment of the Last Days prophecies at the end of this age revealing it’s time to prepare now for the nearing appearance of Jesus Christ for His Church by being born again spiritually into the Kingdom of God as Jesus said we must (John 3) and His Apostles who were authorized (Matthew 16:19) described how (Acts 2).

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