The specter of conflict spreading throughout the Middle East, with the US and its allies drawn into direct battle with Iran, has simply drawn that a lot nearer with the killing of three American servicemen on the Jordanian border.
While the specter of conflagration throughout the area has been simmering because the brutal Hamas assault on Israel, and the following Israeli onslaught on Gaza, Tehran has been repeatedly accused of utilizing its proxy militias to use the state of affairs to an incendiary stage.
The assault on Tower 22 base in Rukban, a distant space close to the Syrian border, by the Iranian-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq, resulted within the first American deaths by enemy fireplace because the starting of the Gaza War. Around 34 others had been severely wounded, lots of them affected by traumatic mind accidents.