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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Dan Sabbagh

Jordan drone strike: who are Islamic Resistance in Iraq and what is Tower 22?

A member of an Iraqi Shiite militant group.
A member of an Iraqi Shiite militant group. Photograph: Hadi Mizban/AP

Three US service personnel were killed and 34 wounded on Sunday after a drone hit a residential quarters at a military outpost in Jordan known as Tower 22, which lies on the border between Iraq and Syria.

It is the first time US soldiers have been killed by hostile fire since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, after an estimated 150 attacks by Iranian-based militias on American bases in Iraq and Syria since 7 October.

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