The assault will additional increase tensions within the Center East (Representational)
Amman, Jordan:
Jordan stated 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 stated 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 world anti-jihadist coalition.
It’s the first time American navy personnel have been killed by hostile hearth within the Center East because the begin of the Israel-Hamas battle, and the incident will additional increase tensions within the area and gasoline fears of a broader battle instantly involving Iran.
Hamas stated the demise of the troopers reveals 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 battle there may result in a ”regional explosion.”
”Whereas we’re nonetheless gathering the details of this assault, we all know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed teams working in Syria and Iraq,” US President Joe Biden stated in a press release on the assault.
”We are going to keep it up their dedication to combat terrorism. And have little question — we are going to maintain all these accountable to account at a time and in a fashion of our selecting,” the president added.
Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri stated the killing of the troopers ”is a message to the American administration that until the killing of harmless individuals in Gaza stops, it could be confronted with the whole (Muslim) nation.”
”The continuation of the American-Zionist aggression on Gaza dangers a regional explosion,” Abu Zuhri stated in a press release.
US and allied forces in Iraq and Syria have been focused in additional than 150 assaults since mid-October, based on the Pentagon, and Washington has carried out retaliatory strikes in each international locations.
Most 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 help for Israel within the Gaza battle.
On Sunday, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq stated 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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