A drone has struck a tent of sleeping troops in Jordan, killing US troops in the Middle East for the first time since the war in Gaza began. The US has blamed Iran-backed militant groups, but is yet to identify who specifically they believe is responsible.

Three American troops have been killed and 34 injured in a drone attack in Jordan.

Those killed in the attack were sleeping in a tent at a place called Tower 22 in northeast Jordan, near the Syria border.

US President Joe Biden said the attack was carried out by “radical Iran-backed militant groups” in Syria and Iraq.

  • @Baines
    link
    English
    1110 months ago

    better hit every hospital just to be sure /s

      • @RealFknNito
        link
        English
        110 months ago

        They learned that from us, definitely, but forgot the lesson we learned on optics.

        Can’t just call everything an enemy base without like at least a hazy picture of a dude with two sticks and a circuit board in the building first.

      • @Argonne
        link
        English
        -510 months ago

        Also the Hamas.playbook, right?

        • Quokka
          link
          fedilink
          English
          510 months ago

          Sure but primarily the Israel playbook first and foremost.

          • @100_percent_a_bot
            link
            English
            010 months ago

            They make a good team though, one makes a civilian installation a military target by conducting military operations from it, the other blows up said military target. That is unless the jihadist rockets misfire and kill everyone on the hospital parking lot, then it becomes a solo mission

        • @Baines
          link
          English
          210 months ago

          one is a nation another is a terrorist group, are they supposed to look the same?