U.S. reports drone strikes on Tanf base in Syria, no casualties

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : The strategically-located garrison sits near Syria's Tanf border crossing with Iraq, at the crossroad of a main highway between Baghdad and Damascus -- one of the main supply routes by land for Iran to smuggle arms into Syria and to its Hezbollah allies.
33% :Iran's role in attack on U.S. troops in Syria signals new escalationPast attacks on the Tanf outpost have been attributed to Iran, including last October.

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