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The US military said on Friday it has attacked more than 85 targets in Syria and Iraq, in response to the deadly attack by pro-Iranian militias that killed three US soldiers in Jordan. The Syrian Observatory for human Rights, a group which has been documenting violence in Syria since 2011, said in a statement, “American warplanes carried out rounds of air strikes on sites along a length of about 130 kilometres from the city of Deir el-Zour all the way to the Syrian-Iraqi border.” The group said that at least 18 pro-Iranian militia members had been killed in the strikes, which targeted 26 sites…