Drone attack on US troops in Jordan/Syria

Extracted Attributes

• Total Attacks

  Over 170 attacks on US military installations

• US Casualties

  3 killed, 40+ wounded

• Primary Location

  Tower 22, Jordan (near the Syrian border)

• US Unit Involved

  718th Engineer Company, Fort Moore, Georgia

• Retaliatory Force

  US Central Command (CENTCOM) airstrikes

• Militant Casualties

  Approximately 65 killed

Timeline

• Iran-backed militias initiate a coordinated series of attacks on US military bases in response to the Gaza war. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2023-10-17

• A drone strike on the Tower 22 base in Jordan kills three US service members and wounds dozens more. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2024-01-28

• Militia attacks against US forces are halted following significant US retaliatory airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024-02-01

• Iraqi militias reach an agreement with the Iraqi government to fully cease attacks following the fall of the Assad regime. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024-12-01

Attacks on US bases during the Gaza war

Starting on 17 October 2023, and in response to United States support for Israel in the Gaza war, Iran-backed militias initiated a coordinated series of more than 170 attacks on US military bases and assets in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan. These attacks resulted in injuries to dozens of US service members. In retaliation, the US has launched multiple counterattacks, resulting in the death of about 65 militants including a senior commander of the Nujaba Movement, Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi. In February 2024, following US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, militia attacks against US forces were halted. Iraqi militias agreed with the Iraqi government in December 2024 to fully cease their attacks following the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.

Web Search Results

• Tower 22 drone attack

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• US drone attack: What is Tower 22 and why are US troops in Jordan?

  **An Iran-backed militia group has said it was responsible for a drone strike at a US military base in Jordan that killed three American troops.**. The attack targeted a US military base known as Tower 22 in north-eastern Jordan, near the Syrian border. The base which was hit in a deadly drone attack in a north-west corner of Jordan is one of more than a dozen where US military personnel operate across Iraq, Jordan and Syria. In recent months, these bases - ranging in size from a military outpost such as Tower 22, which was hit in Jordan, to al-Asad air base in western Iraq - have been attacked by militias trained, funded and equipped by Iran. There are about 3,000 US troops based in Jordan, a key US ally, and 2,500 in Iraq - there at the invitation of the Iraqi government as part of a US-led coalition to prevent a resurgence of the jihadist Islamic State group, which still has a presence there after being routed in 2017.

• U.S. identifies the 3 service members killed in drone strike ...

  **U.S. identifies the 3 service members killed in drone strike in Jordan** **The three fallen soldiers were all reservists assigned to the 718th Engineer Company in Fort Moore, Ga. Meanwhile, the number of those wounded by the attack rose to more than 40.**. # U.S. identifies the 3 service members who were killed in drone strike in Jordan. The attack in Jordan marks the first deadly attack on U.S. forces in the Middle East since the Israel-Hamas broke out with the Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7. U.S. military has been under scrutiny after reports that air defenses at Tower 22 possibly mistook the enemy's drone for an American one which was operating around the same time and level of the attacker. Earlier this month, Central Command said a "number" of U.S. military personnel were evaluated for traumatic brain injuries after Iran-backed groups launched multiple ballistic missiles and rockets on an airbase in western Iraq.

• Three US troops killed in drone strike on US base in Middle ...

  # US drone attack: Three US troops killed in drone strike on US base in Middle East. **Three US troops have been killed and dozens injured in a drone attack on a US base near Jordan's border with Syria.**. US President Joe Biden said the attack was carried out by "radical Iran-backed militant groups". It is the first time that a strike has killed US troops in the region since Hamas's 7 October attack on Israel. There have been other attacks on US bases in the region, but before Sunday there were no fatalities, according to the US military. The White House said Mr Biden was briefed Sunday morning on the attack by US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and other officials. US Central Command and President Biden said the attack was on a base in northeastern Jordan, near the Syrian border. In December, US officials said that US bases in Iraq and Syria had been attacked at least 97 times since 17 October.

• Drone attack targets US base in western Syria

  Drone attack targets US base in western Syria. A US base in western Syria’s Homs province came under a drone attack, according to local sources on Sunday. The suicide drone was shot down by US soldiers at the base in al-Tanf area near the border with Jordan late Saturday, the sources said. The US base came under a similar drone attack last April 7. Earlier this year, an Iraqi resistance group claimed responsibility for a drone attack, which killed three US soldiers and wounded dozens, on a small US military outpost in Jordan known as Tower 22. The group, called Islamic Resistance, stated that it launched attacks on the “Ash Shaddadi and Rukban bases in Syria, as well as the Zvulon naval facility in occupied Palestine, in response to the massacres committed by the Zionist entity (Israel) against our people in Gaza.”. Related**Iraqi group claims responsibility for attack on US base**.