ABC News is reporting this morning that at least 16 terrorists are dead after yesterday’s retaliatory US air strikes on Iranian-backed militia groups and the IRGC in both Iraq and Syria.

Here’s the news:

U.S. strikes in Iraq killed at least 16 people and wounded 25 others, the Iraqi government confirmed in an official statement.

“The American administration committed a new aggression against the sovereignty of Iraq, as the locations of our security forces, in the Akashat and Al-Qaim regions, as well as neighboring civilian places, were bombed by several American aircraft,” said the Iraqi government. “This blatant aggression led to 16 martyrs, including civilians, in addition to 25 wounded. It also caused losses and damage to residential buildings and citizens’ property.”

The Iraqi government also said the strikes would “put security in Iraq and the region on the brink of the abyss” and that they directly contradict the United States effort to “establish the required stability” in the region.

Only 16 terrorists died after the US waited nearly a week to retaliate. Most of the IRGC terrorists fled back to Iran before the air strikes. Biden should have had these options on the table from the beginning and retaliated much sooner. The impact would have been much greater and they could have had a lot more ‘martyrs’.