A suspected Iran-affiliated drone killed a US contractor in Syria, Pentagon said in a statement Thursday. The drone struck a facility housing US personnel in northeast Syria, killing one US contractor while injuring another besides five other US service members.

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes hit a series of residential buildings in Mayadeen, a town in Syria's oil-rich eastern province of Deir Ezzor.

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The UN Security Council was meeting in an emergency session after the US launched a barrage of missile strikes on a Syrian air base

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