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LTG Douglas Sims, talking to reporters now, says the B-1 bombers that participated in the strikes tonight flew in "a single non-stop flight" from the US, "all of that enhanced by our Transportation Command and our ability to gas and go along the way."

"This is the start of our response," @SecDef says in new statement

Jordanian aircraft are also slated to join in the US operation and have been assigned targets - WSJ

POTUS: "Our response began today.  It will continue at times and places of our choosing."

An Iraqi security source: Bombing the Al-Tafuf command headquarters in the residential complex in the Akashat area

PMF 13th brigade operations headquarters was targeted in Akashat, western Iraq

Airstrikes targeted the security square belonging to the IRGC militias in the outskirts of Al-Tamo neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Al-Mayadeen in eastern Syria

The recent strike that targeted the Syrian-Iraqi border points moments ago hit a military vehicle that was smuggled through the PMS crossing from the military passage in the Al-Humeida area near the Syrian village of Al-Hari. The military vehicle was carrying weapons

The moment of the USAF airstrikes on Al-Qaim, western Iraq

CENTCOM Statement on U.S. Stikes in Iraq and Syria. At 4:00 p.m. (EST) Feb. 02, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia groups. U.S. military forces struck more than 85 targets, with numerous aircraft to include long-range bombers flown from United States. The airstrikes employed more than 125 precision munitions. The facilities that were struck included command and control operations, centers, intelligence centers, rockets, and missiles, and unmanned aired vehicle storages, and logistics and munition supply chain facilities of militia groups and their IRGC sponsors who facilitated attacks against U.S. and Coalition forces

Airstrikes targeting Ayash warehouses in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zur

B1 bombers involved in the strike, per DOD official: The U.S. has begun retaliatory airstrikes in Iraq and Syria

Initial reports of airstrikes targeted Qaim, western Iraq

Renewed U.S. raids on sites in Al-Qaim

Two new raids target military sites in Al-Quria and Al-Bukamal in Deir ez-Zor

U.S. strikes have targeted multiple facilities in Iraq and Syria linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and the militias it backs, officials say

Airstrikes just two minutes ago targeted a weapons warehouse affiliated with the IRGC militias on the outskirts of Al-Bukamal city near the Al-Sinaa neighborhood

The Washington Post, citing an U.S. official: The response to the killing of three American soldiers in Jordan will include targets in Yemen

Airstrikes just moments ago targeted the outskirts of Al-Mayadeen city in eastern Syria, hitting the Haydariya farms with 4 missiles. A barracks for personnel and a checkpoint at the gate were hit. Simultaneously, the Qouriyah desert east of Deir ez-Zur was bombarded

Air strikes now on the desert of Al-Mayadeen, east of Deir ez-Zur

Fox News, according to an American official: The strikes are the beginning of a long campaign to target Iranian agents in Iraq and Syria

US Official confirms strikes occurring in Iraq and Syria. “8 targets is just first of many courses” so far

Syrian media: The U.S. attack targeted 12 sites in Al-Mayadeen, Al-Bukamal, and the vicinity of the Al-Qaim crossing

Iranian media: 10 killed in the recent bombing of Deir ez-Zor

Local sources: Bombing on joint points of Syrian forces and Iranian-backed forces in the town of Ayyash in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor, Syria.

Airstrikes, believed to be Israeli, at Al-Bukamal and Al-Mayadin and Deir Ez Zor ongoing now

Drone activity in the border areas of Syria and Iraq, complete evacuation of border points by Iranian-backed militias

Iranian-backed militias in eastern Syria are issuing a direct order to personnel on the borders between Syria and Iraq to vacate the border points immediately

US is conducting surveillance and reconnaissance missions over Syria and Iraq - Officials

Syrian Military source: At approximately 4:20 am today, the Israeli aircraft launched missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of points south of Damascus. Our air defense media responded to the missiles and shot down some of them, and the losses were limited to material losses.

Pro-Assad media: Israeli bombing targets sites in southern Damascus

.@SecDef in briefing says the U.S. response to the attack on Tower 22 will be "multi-tiered.""We have the ability to respond a number of times, depending on what the situation is."

In souther @Syria, ISIS "maintains around 20 active cells totalling 250 to 300 fighters in Dar’a & Suwayda’, some opportunistically collaborating with other armed factions" per @UN report "aims to expand towards the outskirts of Damascus to establish a stronger foothold"

ISIS in Syria also was "able to free some leaders & operatives held in SDF-controlled prisons, intensify recruitment & expand the presence of small mobile cells along the Syrian-Iraqi borders" per @UN report

CBS, according to American officials: Approval of plans to strike targets in Iraq and Syria that will last for days and include Iranian facilities and personnel

Artillery and missile shelling by pro-Assad forces on the town of Kansafra in Jabal al-Zawiya, south of Idlib

Reuters, citing sources: Iran informed Syria of its concern about the leakage of information after its advisors were targeted

Reuters: Iran withdraws its senior officers from Syria after the Israeli attacks