The assault will additional elevate tensions within the Center East (Representational)
Amman, Jordan:
Jordan mentioned Sunday a drone assault that killed three US troops didn’t happen on its territory as Washington reported earlier however at a military base in Syria close to the border.
Authorities spokesperson Muhannad Mubaidin mentioned the “assault that focused the American forces didn’t occur in Jordan… It focused Al-Tanf base in Syria”, the place US forces are deployed as a part of a global anti-jihadist coalition.
It’s the first time American navy personnel have been killed by hostile fireplace within the Center East because the begin of the Israel-Hamas struggle, and the incident will additional elevate tensions within the area and gasoline fears of a broader battle straight involving Iran.
Hamas mentioned the loss of life of the troopers exhibits Washington’s backing for Israel may put it at odds with the entire Muslim world if harmless lives proceed to be misplaced in Gaza, and that the struggle there may result in a “regional explosion.”
“Whereas we’re nonetheless gathering the info of this assault, we all know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed teams working in Syria and Iraq,” US President Joe Biden mentioned in a press release on the assault.
“We are going to keep it up their dedication to combat terrorism. And have little doubt — we’ll maintain all these accountable to account at a time and in a way of our selecting,” the president added.
Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri mentioned the killing of the troopers “is a message to the American administration that except the killing of harmless individuals in Gaza stops, it might be confronted with the whole (Muslim) nation.”
“The continuation of the American-Zionist aggression on Gaza dangers a regional explosion,” Abu Zuhri mentioned in a press release.
US and allied forces in Iraq and Syria have been focused in additional than 150 assaults since mid-October, in keeping with the Pentagon, and Washington has carried out retaliatory strikes in each international locations.
Lots of the assaults on US personnel have been claimed by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a unfastened alliance of Iran-linked armed teams that oppose US assist for Israel within the Gaza battle.
On Sunday, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq mentioned it focused US personnel with drones at three places in Syria, together with two bases close to the place the borders of Iraq, Syria and Jordan meet, nevertheless it was not instantly clear if the group was referring to the assault that killed the American troops.
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