The 1st round of retaliatory #UnitedStates strikes against #Iran-linked militants in #Iran & #Syria killed dozens of fighters & several #civilians, acc/to statements from Iraq government, #militia groups & a local monitoring network on Sat, as the #Biden admin attempts to respond to the killing of 3 US soldiers & injuring of >30 others at #Tower22 in #Jordan w/o escalating the regional conflict.

#MiddleEast #geopolitics #Hezbollah #Security #war
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/03/us-strikes-casualties-iraq-syria-iran/

Some biography that #BBC #todayprogramme failed to give us on #KurtVolker when interviewing him about lack of #Tower22 response. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Volker

The head of #Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday that #Tehran was “not looking for war,” appearing to signal that it would not escalate tensions w/ the #UnitedStates. But he also warned that Iran was prepared to respond if attacked.

#Tower22 #Jordan #IRI #IRGC #KataibHezbollah #HezbollahBrigades #Israel #Hamas #MiddleEast #NationalSecurity #GlobalSecurity #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/01/31/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/iran-is-not-looking-for-war-the-head-of-the-revolutionary-guards-says?smid=url-share

In a surprise move, an #Iran-linked militia in Iraq that #UnitedStates ofcls say may have been responsible for a lethal drone attack on a US base in #Jordan over the wknd announced it was suspending #military operations in #Iraq under pressure from the Iraqi govt & from #Iran.

#Tower22 #IRI #Israel #Hamas #IRGC #Hezbollah #KataibHezbollah #HezbollahBrigades #MiddleEast #NationalSecurity #GlobalSecurity #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/01/31/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/jordan-drone-iran-iraq-kataib-hezbollah?smid=url-share

The #MAGA party wants America to start a war with #Iran by having us strike Iran for the strikes at #tower22 & the deaths that occurred. I'm not sure that the American people want us to get into another war. But that's the #Trumplicans stance.

#Iran, il dilemma di #Biden

di Mario Lombardo

altrenotizie.org

https://www.altrenotizie.org/primo-piano/10195-iran-il-dilemma-di-biden.html

#tower22
#Jordan #Giordania
#Iraq
#Siria #Syria
#Gaza

Specialist Sanders & Specialist Moffett both enlisted in the #ArmyReserve in 2019 & were trained to operate heavy equipment, such as road graders. #Tower22 was Specialist Moffett’s first deployment. Specialist Sanders had been deployed once before, in 2021, to an American outpost in Djibouti.

#Jordan #IRI #UnitedStates #Israel #Hamas #Iran #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/us-soldiers-killed-jordan.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

The three who were killed on Sunday are part of an often overlooked part of the military that delivers supplies, maintains buildings, builds roads and does other routine work while shouldering the risk of operating in hostile territory.

Sergeant Rivers was trained as an electrician, had served in the #ArmyReserve for more than a decade and had been deployed to Iraq in 2018 during the fight against Islamic State militants, according to Army records.

#Tower22 #IRI #Jordan

2 ofcls said an initial assessment suggested that the weaponized #drone may have been mistaken for an American aircraft returning to #Tower22, a base in NE #Jordan close to where the country’s border converges w/ Syria & Iraq. Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon spox, told reporters that the attack occurred early Sun & struck living quarters, described as containerized housing, where personnel were still in bed asleep.

#IRI #UnitedStates #Iran #MiddleEast #NationalSecurity #GlobalSecurity #geopolitics

The dead were identified as Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46; Spec. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24; & Spec. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23. They were members of an #ArmyReserve unit, the 718th Engineer Company, from Fort Moore in Georgia & the first American troops killed by hostile fire since the war in #Gaza triggered a steep rise in #violence across the #MiddleEast.

#Tower22 #Jordan #IRI #UnitedStates #Israel #Hamas #Iran #Hezbollah #NationalSecurity #GlobalSecurity #geopolitics

While the #Pentagon scrambled to identify what went wrong at the isolated facility w/the goal of preventing more bloodshed from ongoing attacks by Iranian proxy forces, President #Biden’s vow to retaliate raised questions about whether the #UnitedStates could tip the region into the full-scale #conflict that DC has sought to avoid. The incident also prompted concern about whether US personnel are adequately prepared to defend against the proliferation of attack #drones.

#Tower22 #IRI #Jordan

The #Pentagon identified the dead as members of an #ArmyReserve unit from Georgia

Sgt. #WilliamJeromeRivers
Spec. #BreonnaAlexsondriaMoffett &
Spec. #KennedyLadonSanders were killed in a drone attack Sunday on an outpost in northeast #Jordan.

The number of Americans wounded has risen to >40

#Tower22 #IRI #UnitedStates #Israel #Hamas #Iran #Hezbollah #MiddleEast #NationalSecurity #GlobalSecurity #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/01/29/jordan-drone-attack-us-confusion/

3 US Troops Killed, 34 Wounded in Drone Attack in Jordan
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This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows a military base known as Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan, Oct. 12, 2023. Three American troops were killed and 34 wounded on Jan. 28.

Three U.S. troops were killed and at least another 34 wounded Saturday night in a drone...
https://alaska-native-news.com/3-us-troops-killed-34-wounded-in-drone-attack-in-jordan/72307/
#jordan #fatality #troops #drone #attack #tower22