Three US service members have been killed by a drone assault on a army base carried out by “radical Iran-backed militant teams” in north-eastern Jordan, the White House mentioned on Sunday.
The deaths mark the primary time US troops have been killed in an assault within the Middle East for the reason that Israel-Hamas warfare started in Gaza in October.
President Joe Biden mentioned the US would “maintain all these accountable to account at a time and in a fashion of our selecting”.
The assault is a big escalation that’s seemingly to attract the US additional into battle at the same time as Washington seeks to keep away from a broader regional conflagration.