The bottom, Tower 22, is on the border with Syria.
In an announcement, President Joe Biden stated “we all know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant teams working in Syria and Iraq.”
A White Home official stated the president was briefed Sunday morning on the assault by Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin, nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan, and Principal Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor Jon Finer.
In a recorded interview posted Sunday morning on ABC’s “This Week,” Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. C.Q. Brown stated the U.S. doesn’t need the battle within the Center East to proceed to broaden.
“The purpose is to discourage them and we don’t wish to go down a path of better escalation that drives to a wider battle inside the area,” he stated.
American and British warships have additionally been busy capturing down drones and ballistic missiles by Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen. A number of industrial ships have been struck, disrupting international commerce routes within the Crimson Sea.
Since October, Iran proxies have hit U.S. and allied forces within the Center East 158 instances, although to date they’ve brought about solely minor accidents and injury to infrastructure.
The Tower 22 base has seen motion earlier than. On Oct. 23, Iran-backed militants in Syria launched
a number of one-way assault drones near al-Tanf Garrison, a small base close to the border with Jordan, POLITICO reported beforehand. Coalition forces at Tower 22 took down the drones, which fell on the Syrian aspect of the border.
Eugene Daniels and Lara Seligman contributed to this report.