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On 2 February, the US launched retaliatory airstrikes targeting Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria, in response to an attack that killed three US troops in Jordan. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights , at least 35 Iran-backed militiamen were killed in the strikes in Syria. [ 23 ]
Since the onset of the Israel–Hamas war on 7 October 2023, militia groups supported by Iran have executed more than 170 attacks on US bases in Iraq, Jordan and Syria. [10] 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 ...
Iraqi insurgents released images of the Common Access Cards of two of the soldiers in early June 2007 [1] [2]. The May 2007 abduction of American soldiers in Iraq occurred when Iraqi insurgents attacked a military outpost in Al Taqa, Iraq, killing four U.S. Army soldiers and an Iraqi soldier before capturing Private Byron Wayne Fouty, Specialist Alex Ramon Jimenez, and Private First Class ...
Seven US troops were injured in a raid in Iraq on Thursday that killed 15 ISIS members, three defense officials said. Five of the personnel were wounded during the operation, with one evacuated ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -At least five U.S. personnel were injured in an attack against a military base in Iraq on Monday, U.S. officials told Reuters, as the Middle East braced for a possible new ...
Five American troops and two contractors were injured in a rocket attack on a U.S. base in Iraq on Monday, a defense official said. Two rockets struck Al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq around 2 p.m ...
Later in the day, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iranian-backed factions, claimed that it had launched attacks on that day on an Israeli oil facility in the Mediterranean Sea as well as three US military bases in Syria, namely Shaddadi, Tanf and Rukban, the last of which is located on Jordanian side of the border with Syria.
The U.S. military has already come under attack at least 100 times in Iraq and Syria since the Israel-Hamas war began in October, usually with a mix of rockets and one-way attack drones.