The assault will additional lift tensions within the Center East (Representational)
Amman, Jordan:
Jordan stated Sunday a drone assault that killed 3 US troops didn’t happen on its territory as Washington reported previous however at a military base in Syria close to the border.
Govt spokesperson Muhannad Mubaidin stated the “assault that centered the American forces didn’t occur in Jordan… It centered 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 army body of workers were killed by way of adverse hearth within the Center East because the get started of the Israel-Hamas warfare, and the incident will additional lift tensions within the area and gas fears of a broader battle without delay involving Iran.
Hamas stated the loss of life of the warriors displays Washington’s backing for Israel may just put it at odds with the entire Muslim international if blameless lives proceed to be misplaced in Gaza, and that the warfare there may just result in a “regional explosion.”
“Whilst we’re nonetheless accumulating the details of this assault, we understand it used to be performed by way of radical Iran-backed teams working in Syria and Iraq,” US President Joe Biden stated in a observation at the assault.
“We will be able to lift on their dedication to battle terrorism. And haven’t any doubt — we can cling all the ones accountable to account at a time and in a way of our opting for,” the president added.
Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri stated the killing of the warriors “is a message to the American management that until the killing of blameless folks in Gaza stops, it can be confronted with all of the (Muslim) country.”
“The continuation of the American-Zionist aggression on Gaza dangers a regional explosion,” Abu Zuhri stated in a observation.
US and allied forces in Iraq and Syria were centered in additional than 150 assaults since mid-October, in step with the Pentagon, and Washington has performed retaliatory moves in each international locations.
Most of the assaults on US body of workers were claimed by way of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a unfastened alliance of Iran-linked armed teams that oppose US make stronger for Israel within the Gaza battle.
On Sunday, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq stated it centered US body of workers with drones at 3 places in Syria, together with two bases close to the place the borders of Iraq, Syria and Jordan meet, nevertheless it used to be now not straight away transparent if the crowd used to be relating to the assault that killed the American troops.
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