New video of U.S. troops being shot at abroad contradicts Vice President Kamala Harris’ declare the U.S. doesn’t have troops in an energetic fight zone, in keeping with Rep. Jim Banks.
The harrowing footage reveals a firestorm of bullets and explosives concentrating on U.S. troops and was taken throughout the final “few months,” in keeping with the Indiana Republican, who obtained it from a service member.
The time and place of the footage can’t be divulged attributable to nationwide safety issues.
Throughout her debate with former President Trump final week, Harris boasted of the Biden administration’s efforts to get U.S. troops out of warfare zones like Afghanistan.
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“There’s not one member of america navy who’s in energetic responsibility in a fight zone in any warfare zone all over the world, the primary time this century,” she claimed.
U.S. troops stand in formation on Memorial Day 2024 in Iraq, a delegated fight zone. (U.S. Military)
“That’s only a full lie,” Banks informed Fox Information Digital. “This video proves that we’ve got troops being fired on.”
“Indisputably,” U.S. troops are being fired at usually, added Banks, an Afghanistan veteran and Armed Services Committee member.
“We have now troops at present in Syria. We nonetheless have troops in Iraq. We have now troops within the Center East. The Houthis are utilizing our Navy ships as goal follow. We have now harmful threats all over the world, and Kamala Harris is making an attempt to attain low-cost political factors and mislead the American folks proper earlier than the election to say that we do not have troops in fight zones,” Banks stated.
Iraq and Syria are designated fight zones, and troops that serve there earn fight pay. The U.S. has about 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria. The Protection Division is in talks a couple of plan to drag People out of Iraq starting subsequent yr.
In an operation final month, U.S. troops and Iraqi forces killed a senior commander with the Islamic State, along with a number of different outstanding militants, for a complete 14 ISIS operatives.
U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., arrives for a Home Republican members assembly because the convention continues to debate the race for speaker of the Home on the U.S. Capitol Oct. 19, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Photographs)
5 U.S. troops had been wounded within the raid itself and two had been injured from falls throughout the operation.
The Islamic State group seized territory on the peak of its energy and declared a caliphate over swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014. It was defeated in Iraq in 2017, however assaults by ISIS sleeper cells throughout Iraq and Syria have been on the rise over the previous few years.
A soldier from the U.S.-led coalition gestures towards schoolchildren throughout a joint U.S.- Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces patrol within the countryside of Qamishli in northeastern Syria Feb. 8, 2024. (Reuters/Orhan Qereman)
The Pentagon informed Fox Information Digital that service members are stationed in numerous harmful places however famous that these deployments are made by the chief department and never attributable to wars declared by Congress.
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“A facet of navy service contains serving in places the place hostile actions could happen,” a protection official stated. “These places are designated by govt order and/or the secretary of protection.
“Nevertheless, it’s essential to notice that simply because a service member is in one in all these places doesn’t imply they’re engaged in warfare,” the official added. “The U.S. just isn’t at present engaged in a warfare and doesn’t have troops combating in energetic warfare zones anyplace on the planet.”
