<span style="color: #222222;">United States strikes on eastern Syria near the border with Iraq killed at least five Iran-backed militia fighters, a war monitor reported today.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Five Iran-backed Iraqi militia fighters were killed and several others were wounded in an attack by US warplanes on the Syrian side of the frontier, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The war monitor, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria to collect information, said that military positions were among the targets hit.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Syria's state-run news agency said, one child had been killed, and that at least three more people were wounded.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The strikes, confirmed by the Pentagon in a statement, mark the second such US attack on Iran-backed militias in Syria since President Joe Biden took office.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">They targeted operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria and one in Iraq, the Pentagon said in a statement.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In February, US strikes on facilities in east Syria used by Iran-backed militia groups left more than 20 fighters dead, according to the Observatory.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Pentagon said, the strikes were retaliation for a rocket attack in Iraq that killed one civilian contractor and wounded a US service member and other coalition troops.</span><br />''  <br />