Three U.S. service members had been killed and dozens wounded throughout an unmanned aerial drone assault on U.S. forces stationed in northeastern Jordan close to the Syrian border, President Joe Biden and U.S. officers stated on Sunday.
Biden blamed Iran-backed teams for the assault.
“Whereas we’re nonetheless gathering the information of this assault, we all know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant teams working in Syria and Iraq,” Biden stated in an announcement.
A minimum of 34 personnel had been being evaluated for attainable traumatic mind damage, a U.S. official advised Reuters.
“Whereas we’re nonetheless gathering information, that is most assuredly the work of an Iranian-backed militia group,” a second official stated.
The deaths marked the primary fatalities of U.S. troops within the area since struggle started in Gaza. Biden stated the assault occurred on Saturday evening.
The assault is a serious escalation of the already tense state of affairs within the Center East, the place struggle broke out in Gaza after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas’ assault on Israel on October 7 which killed 1,200. Israel’s subsequent assault on Gaza has killed over 26,000 Palestinians, in accordance with the native well being ministry.
Whereas the US has to date maintained an official line that Washington shouldn’t be at struggle within the area, it has made strikes towards targets of Yemen’s Houthi teams which were attacking industrial vessels within the Purple Sea.
“We are going to stick with it their dedication to struggle terrorism. And have little question – we are going to maintain all these accountable to account at a time and in a way of our selecting,” Biden stated in his assertion launched by the White Home.
