The pro-Iranian militia group Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed responsibility this Sunday for the drone attack against a United States base in Syria next to the border with Jordan, which resulted in the death of three American soldiers and left at least 25 injured.
The Al Nujaba militia, one of the most prominent of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, celebrated in a statement several attacks that the group launched today against US positions in Syria and Iraq, including one directed against the Al Tanf base “which caused the death and injury of more than 50 American soldiers.”
“This operation is a small introduction to the hell of the Islamic Resistance’s operations in Iraq,” the militia threatened in the note.
It was the president of the United States, Joe Biden, who announced this Sunday that three American soldiers had died in a drone attack in northeastern Jordan , near the border with Syria.
“While we are still gathering the facts of this attack, we know that it was carried out by radical Iranian-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq,” the president added in a statement.
As a result of the attack, which occurred at night, at least 25 other people who were stationed at a US base in the area were also injured, according to the US Army Central Command.
Biden mourns the loss of American soldiers
According to what a US government official told CNN, the drone was apparently sent from Syria and was a one-way trip.
The attack marks the first time that members of the US military have been killed since the outbreak of the conflict in the Gaza Strip on October 7, and aggravates the already fragile situation in the Middle East.
Biden, who learned of the attack this Sunday morning, said the United States “will hold all those responsible accountable at a time and in a manner we choose.”
“The three American service members we lost were patriots in the highest sense. And our nation will never forget his final sacrifice,” he added, in a statement released by the White House.
From Jordan, Minister of Government Communications and official government spokesman Muhannad Moubaideen told Al-Mamlaka on Sunday that the attack targeting US forces near the border with Syria did not occur inside that country.
Mubaideen explained to Al-Mamlaka that the attack targeted the Al-Tanf base in Syria. The US base at Al Tanf is in Syria, on the border with Jordan and Iraq.
Iran denies involvement in the attack
Iran denied its involvement in the attack in which three US soldiers died in Syria near the border with Jordan, the state agency IRNA reported.
The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Naser Kananí, stated that his country has not been involved “in the operations of resistance groups in the region”, as claimed by the United States and the United Kingdom.
“These statements are made with specific political objectives to reverse the realities of the region and are influenced by third parties, including the Zionist regime (Israel) that murders children,” Kananí said, according to IRNA.
The Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN also stressed that “Iran has no connection or anything to do with the attack against a US base,” the diplomatic legation assured, according to the Iranian state agency.
Iran leads the so-called Axis of Resistance, an informal alliance formed by militant organizations such as Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels, the Islamist movement Hamas and Islamic Jihad, among other groups.
Tehran denies that these actors act under its orders and assures that they make decisions on their own.
BY: Nadeem Faisal Baiga
