A US contractor was killed and five US service members and one other US contractor were wounded when a suspected Iranian drone struck a facility on a coalition base in northeast Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon said.In a statement released late on Thursday, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said US Central Command forces retaliated with "precision airstrikes" against facilities in eastern Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard.The Defence Department said the intelligence community had determined the unmanned aerial vehicle was of Iranian origin.
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