On Friday, and after the air strikes hit Syrian sites by the American air forces, late at night on Thursday, The White House spokesman John Kirby, said, that the air strike, which targeted groups linked to Iran, came to protect American soldiers, while a Pentagon official confirmed that his country's forces in the region are on alert.

Today, Friday, an official at the US Department of Defense, the Pentagon, revealed the details of the air strike carried out by the US forces, Thursday evening, in Syria, targeting sites belonging to Iran.

After the decision of US president Joe Biden of cutting the budget for defense, The chiefs expressed kind of their unsatisfying with the cut.

Both Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said they are afraid of the decision's impact.

A new aid to Ukraine with 350 m.will be in form of weapons and equipment, the Biden administration announced Monday.