The small installation includes US engineering, aviation, logistics and security troops, with about 350 US army and air force personnel deployed. Image:Military base known as Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan where three US soldiers were killed in drone attack. Pic: Planet Labs PBC via AP The exp...
Al Mayadeen reported a drone attack on the Al-Tanf base and a missile attack on the Conoco base in the countryside of the northern Deir al-Zor region. It gave no further information. U.S. military forces in Iraq were targeted on Wednesday in two separate drone attacks, with one...
US President Joe Biden said Sunday that three US soldiers were killed and many others wounded in a drone attack targeting US forces stationed in northeast Jordan near the border with Syria Saturday night. The president said...
An enemy drone that killed three American troops and wounded dozens of others in Jordan may have been confused with an American drone returning to the U.S. installation.
US troops in Iraq and Syria have faced over 100 attacks since October The surge in attacks began Oct. 17. ByMeghann Myers Ryder declined to say whether U.S. forces would strike back for Friday’s drone attack, saying only that the United States “won’t tolerate” such attacks. ...
Ryder declined to say whether U.S. forces would strike back for Friday’s drone attack, saying only that the United States “won’t tolerate” such attacks. Friday’s attack comes as the region stands on the precipice of a full-scale war after Israeli strikes in Lebanon and Iran earlier ...
An umbrella group of Iran-backed militias calling itself the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has periodically launched drone attacks on bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria, which they said was in retaliation for Washington’s support of Israel in the ongoing war in G...
US fires back after ballistic missile attack on Iraq base The number of attacks on U.S. troops in the Middle East has risen to 66. ByMeghann Myers One of these incidents has been publicly confirmed by the Pentagon, when an AC-130 gunship hit a vehicle after its ...
For the second time in a week, U.S. troops were attacked in eastern Syria,the Pentagon announced Tuesday. This latest attack occurred Saturday — the same day Israel shot down an Iranian drone and had one of its F-16s shot down for the first time since the early 1980s. ...
Wednesday’s drone strike was thesecond US attack in Iraqtargeting a senior leader of an Iranian-backed militia since October. Senior Biden administration officials have vowed the US wouldcontinue to respondto a deadly drone attack in Jordan late last month that killed three US troops and injured...