 US forces have begun a new bombing campaign in the Middle East to punish Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force and affiliated militia groups for a series of drone and missile attacks on American military bases in the region.Washington's latest airstrikes began around midnight Baghdad time on Saturday and hit more than 85 targets in Syria and Iraq, the US Central Command said in a statement. The operation involved numerous aircraft, including long-range bombers flown from the US, which dropped over 125 precision munitions on their targets.Those targets included command and control centers, intelligence sites, weapons caches, and supply chain facilities of Iranian-backed militias, as well as their IRGC sponsors who facilitated attacks against US and coalition forces, CENTCOM said. The bombings follow a series of assaults on American military bases in the Middle East, including a drone attack that killed three American soldiers and wounded more than 40 others at secretive US installation in Jordan. That base, called Tower 22, is located near the Syrian and Iraqi borders.The attack on Tower 22 was planned, resourced, and facilitated by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.