Published January 28,2024
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Three US service members had been killed and 28 injured this weekend in an assault on the Al-Tanf US navy base close to the Jordanian-Syrian border, American and Jordanian officers mentioned Sunday.
“On Jan. 28, three US service members were killed and 25 injured from a one-way attack UAS (drone) that impacted at a base in northeast Jordan, near the Syria border,” the US Central Command mentioned in a press launch.
In an announcement from the White House, US President Joe Biden mentioned: “Today, America’s heart is heavy. Last night, three U.S. service members were killed-and many wounded-during an unmanned aerial drone attack on our forces stationed in northeast Jordan near the Syria border.”
“While we are still gathering the facts of this attack, we know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq,” he added.
But Mohannad Mubaydeen, spokesperson for the Jordanian authorities, mentioned “the attack targeting US forces near the Syrian border did not take place within Jordan” however as an alternative “targeted Al-Tanf base in Syria.”
The assault is taken into account as one of many deadliest current assaults on American troops within the Middle East.
Al-Tanf, a base positioned inside Syrian territory exterior of regime management the place the Syrian, Iraqi, and Jordanian borders meet, homes quite a lot of American troops.
The base had beforehand come underneath assault on Jan. 4, with unidentified drones intercepted by US forces earlier than reaching the bottom.
Source: www.anews.com.tr