The United States military carried out new strikes against two sites in Iraq early Wednesday local time in retaliation for attacks by “Iran and Iran-backed groups,” US Central Command said. US forces “conducted discrete, precision strikes against two facilities in Iraq,” CENTCOM said on X, previously Twitter. “The strikes were in direct response to the attacks against US and Coalition forces by Iran and Iran-backed groups,” the post added, and come the day after a previous US air strike killed multiple Iranian-backed militiamen in Iraq.