There have been strikes on (illegal) US bases in Syria and Iraq, but up until now, the US has claimed that no one got killed. Why change the story now?
For the last few days we have been hearing rumors that the US is thinking about removing its troops from Syria, where it illegally occupies a third of the country, (and steals their oil and wheat), and Iraq, where the Iraqi government has demanded that the US leave.
Remember when Trump tried to remove US troops from Syria? We were told then that that wacky Assad responded by gassing his own people, as if he wanted the troops to stay. Cause that makes sense. But it worked. The US remains in Syria today, occupying the oil-producing parts of Syria, which makes it easier to steal their oil.
I think that this announcement is the equivalent of that earlier response to the plan for withdrawal, probably orchestrated by the same people, or their cohorts. And Victoria Cookies Nuland announced that the US will not leave Syria (on her way to Kiev to give the imperial marching orders to Zelensky.)
The war machine can't stop, won't stop. The looting will continue, until another force puts a stop to it.