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By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Friday said it would protect its personnel in Syria after the U.S. military carried out air strikes against Iran-backed forces in retaliation for an attack that killed an American contractor and wounded five U.S. troops. Just a day after the deadly attack on U.S. personnel in Syria, which Washington blamed on a drone of Iranian origin, sources said a U.S. base in Syria’s northeast was targeted with a new missile attack. U.S. officials said there were no U.S. casualties in the Friday incident. The latest violence could fu…