U.S. forces on Friday unleashed a wave of major retaliatory airstrikes against Iran‘s elite Quds Force units and Iran-backed militias across Iraq and Syria, officials said, finally firing back a week after an attack killed three American service members in Jordan. U.S. Central Command said the first round of strikes hit dozens of targets, including […]
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Friday met with the grieving families of the three soldiers killed in the Iran-backed militia drone strike Sunday in Jordan. Later in the day, the president attended the return of the fallen troops’ remains at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. “They risked it all, and we’ll […]
President Biden said Tuesday he’s decided how to respond to the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan, but said he doesn’t want a wider conflict in the Middle East. Departing for Florida, Mr. Biden wouldn’t elaborate on what that response would entail. He told reporters that he holds Iran partly responsible for […]
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Described by their parents as bubbly and constantly laughing, Spc. Kennedy Sanders and Spc. Breonna Moffett became close friends soon after enlisting in the Army Reserve five years ago. Sgt. William Jerome Rivers served a tour in Iraq before joining the same company of Army engineers. The three citizen-soldiers from different corners […]
President Biden huddled with top advisers Monday vowing to respond to the weekend attack that killed three U.S. soldiers at a Jordanian base on the border with Syria, amid reports monitors at the base may have confused the hostile drone with one launched by the American outpost itself. The strike, the latest in a tit-for-tat […]
During their last phone conversation, Spc. Kennedy Sanders told her mother she wanted to take her military career to a new level when she returned home from the Middle East. She also revealed, to her mother’s strict disapproval, that she was thinking of buying a motorcycle. The 24-year-old Army reservist and her family were already […]
Anger flowed Sunday from Republican senators after news emerged that a drone attack on a U.S. base in Jordan left three Americans dead and more than 25 wounded. The attack on the outpost identified as Tower 22 took place Sunday in northeast Jordan near Syria border. President Joe Biden blamed the attack on extremists backed […]
We were warned that something like this was probably on the way and now it’s happened. A drone strike launched by Iran-backed militants in Syria has struck a small American outpost in Jordan killing three U.S. soldiers and injuring at least twenty more. The rebels struck in the middle of the night and the drone […]
CORRECTION, Jan. 29, 2024: The drone strike that killed three U.S. service members occurred Sunday. An earlier version of this article had a different day. The first U.S. service members to die after more than three months of attacks on American forces in the Middle East were killed Sunday in a drone strike on a […]
Pentagon officials said Sunday that three American troops were killed and 25 others were wounded in a drone attack that targeted a base in northeast Jordan near the border with Syria. U.S. Central Command did not identify the victims of the one-way drone attack or who was behind the strike. The U.S. has about 2,500 […]
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