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Two other enemy drones, targeting sites in southeast Syria, were shot down. [22] The US formally blamed the Islamic Resistance in Iraq for the attack on 31 January. [21] On 17 June 2024, the U.S. Department of State designated Ansar Allah al-Awfiya (19th PMF Brigade) as a terrorist organization, following their involvement in the attack on ...
These attacks have resulted in injuries to dozens of troops. On 28 January 2024, a Shahed 136 drone strike carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted Tower 22, a US base in Jordan, resulting in the deaths of three US troops and causing injuries to 47 others. [11] [12]
On 30 January, Kata'ib Hezbollah announced the suspension of all its military operations against US forces in the region after the Tower 22 drone attack which killed 3 US soldiers and injured 47 others. They announced this decision was taken out of preventing "embarrassment" of the Iraqi government which has called for all resistance parties to ...
The base, known as Tower 22, sits near the demilitarized zone on the border between Jordan and Syria along a sandy, bulldozed berm marking the DMZ's southern edge. The Iraqi border is only 10 ...
Tower 22 holds a strategically important location in Jordan, at the most northeastern point where the country's borders meet Syria and Iraq. Tower 22 is near Al Tanf garrison, which is located ...
On 2 February 2024, the United States Air Force launched attacks against what it claimed were militia sites in Iraq and Syria, killing 45 people in after the Tower 22 drone strike that killed 3 US soldiers in Jordan.
28 January – Tower 22 drone attack: Three U.S. military personnel are killed in a drone attack by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iranian-backed militia group, on a US military outpost near the Syrian border. 18 June – The Jordanian Foreign Ministry confirms that 41 Jordanian pilgrims died due to heat exhaustion during the Hajj in Mecca. [3]
First Lieutenant Muwaffaq Salti. In 1918, during World War I, T. E. Lawrence (also known as Lawrence of Arabia) used the historic castle in Azraq and the plains at that site as a base for use as a landing ground for the aircraft which were supporting the column pushing north towards Syria.