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Three US service members have been killed by a drone assault on a army base carried out by “radical Iran-backed militant teams” close to the Syria border, the White Home mentioned on Sunday.
President Joe Biden mentioned the US would “maintain all these accountable to account at a time and in a fashion of our selecting”.
US defence officers mentioned an additional 25 service members had been injured within the assault at a army base in north-eastern Jordan. A spokesman for Jordan’s authorities advised public broadcaster al-Mamlaka that the assault occurred on the US base at Al-Tanf on the Syrian aspect of the border.
The deaths mark the primary time US troops have been killed for the reason that Israel-Hamas conflict started in Gaza.
The US and UK have been co-ordinating joint assaults on Houthi targets in Yemen in response to the Iran-backed insurgent group’s assaults on vessels crusing by means of the Purple Sea, a essential delivery lane for international commerce.
However the widening army effort has raised fears that the US and its allies may very well be drawn right into a wider regional war.
US forces have additionally launched a number of strikes in opposition to Iranian-backed Iraqi militants in response to rocket and drone assaults on US troops in Syria and Iraq.
Houthi rebels have mentioned their assaults had been in response to Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip because it launched its conflict in opposition to Hamas in October. The Houthis have carried out greater than 30 assaults on worldwide and industrial vessels since mid-November.
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