THE STRIKE: The U.S. response to a series of rocket attacks in Iraq came in the early hours of the morning Syria time and targeted a series of buildings along the border, where Iranian-backed militias move freely back and forth into Iraq to carry out attacks.

The Pentagon said “defensive” airstrikes “destroyed multiple facilities located at a border control point,” and an Iraqi militia official told the Associated Press that one person was killed and several others wounded in the strike, which targeted “infrastructure utilized by Iranian-backed militant groups in eastern Syria.”