US strikes Iranian-aligned militia groups after 3 service members injured by drone attack in Iraq
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ASSOCIATED PRESS • December 26, 2023
AAMER MADHANI AND ZEKE MILLER
ASSOCIATED PRESS • December 26, 2023
U.S. soldiers conduct an artillery live fire exercise at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, on Dec. 1. (Staff Sgt. Quince Lanford/U.S. Army)
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military to carry out retaliatory airstrikes against Iranian-backed militia groups after three U.S. servicemembers were injured in a drone attack in northern Iraq.
National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said one of the U.S. troops suffered critical injuries in the attack that occurred earlier Monday. The Iranian-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups, under an umbrella of Iranian-backed militants, claimed credit for the attack that utilized a one-way attack drone.
National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said one of the U.S. troops suffered critical injuries in the attack that occurred earlier Monday. The Iranian-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups, under an umbrella of Iranian-backed militants, claimed credit for the attack that utilized a one-way attack drone.
Biden, who is spending Christmas at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, was alerted about the attack by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan shortly after it occurred on Monday and ordered the Pentagon and his top national security aides to prepare response options to the attack on an air base used by American troops in Erbil. . .
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