| 2/2/2024 |
CNN |
US launches strikes in Iraq and Syria as Israel-Hamas war rages |
The US has begun conducting strikes on targets in Iraq and Syria, the start of what will likely be a series of larger-scale US strikes on Iranian-backed militias who have carried out attacks on US troops in the Middle East, according to two US officials. |
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-02-02-24/index.html |
| 1/29/2024 |
DoD |
DoD Identifies Fatalities |
Three U.S. soldiers were killed yesterday in Jordan, while more than 40 other service members were injured following an uncrewed aerial system attack at a military base near the Syrian border.
Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett of Savannah, Georgia. |
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/28/politics/us-troops-drone-attack-jordan/index.html |
| 1/29/2024 |
DoD |
DoD Identifies Fatalities |
Three U.S. soldiers were killed yesterday in Jordan, while more than 40 other service members were injured following an uncrewed aerial system attack at a military base near the Syrian border.
Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders of Waycross, Georgia |
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/28/politics/us-troops-drone-attack-jordan/index.html |
| 1/29/2024 |
DoD |
DoD Identifies Fatalities |
Three U.S. soldiers were killed yesterday in Jordan, while more than 40 other service members were injured following an uncrewed aerial system attack at a military base near the Syrian border.
Sgt. William Jerome Rivers of Carrollton, assigned to the 718th Engineer Company, 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, Fort Moore, Georgia. |
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/28/politics/us-troops-drone-attack-jordan/index.html |
| 1/28/2024 |
CNN |
Three US troops killed in drone attack in Jordan, more than 30 injured |
Three US Army soldiers were killed and more than 30 service members were injured in a drone attack overnight on a small US outpost in Jordan, US officials told CNN, marking the first time US troops have been killed by enemy fire in the Middle East since the beginning of the Gaza war. |
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/28/politics/us-troops-drone-attack-jordan/index.html |
| 8/1/2022 |
Reuters |
US kills al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in drone strike in Afghanistan |
The United States killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike, President Joe Biden said Monday in a speech from the White House.
"I authorized a precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield, once and for all," Biden said.Zawahiri, who just turned 71 years old, had remained a visible international symbol of the group, 11 years after the US killed Osama bin Laden. At one point, he acted as bin Laden's personal physician. |
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/01/politics/joe-biden-counter-terrorism/index.html |
| 3/12/2022 |
Reuters |
Rockets hit northern Iraq's Kurdish capital, but no casualties reported |
Several rockets landed in Irbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region on Sunday, Kurdish officials said, but added there were no confirmed casualties so far from the incident. A U.S. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity that there were no U.S. military casualties caused by the attack. Few other details were immediately available. |
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/13/no-us-military-casualties-after-attack-in-erbil-iraq-us-official.html |
| 10/15/2021 |
AP |
Suicide attack on Shiite mosque in Afghanistan kills 37 |
Suicide bombers assaulted a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan that was packed with worshippers attending weekly Friday prayers, killing at least 37 people and wounding more than 70, according to a hospital official and an eyewitness.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on the Imam Barga mosque. It came a week after a bombing claimed by the local Islamic State affiliate killed 46 people at a Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan. |
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/suicide-attack-on-shiite-mosque-in-afghanistan-kills-37 |
| 10/7/2021 |
Reuters |
U.S. charges former Taliban commander with killing U.S. troops in 2008 |
A former Taliban commander has been charged with killing U.S. troops in 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice said, adding that a federal grand jury in New York unsealed the indictment on Thursday.
"Haji Najibullah, previously charged in the 2008 kidnapping of an American journalist, was also indicted today for 2008 attacks on U.S. Service members in Afghanistan, including attacks resulting in the deaths of three American soldiers and their Afghan interpreter and the downing of a U.S. helicopter," the Justice Department said in a statement. |
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-charges-former-taliban-commander-with-killing-us-troops-2008-2021-10-07/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter |
| 9/26/2021 |
WaPo |
How Afghanistan’s security forces lost the war |
A sophisticated Taliban campaign aimed at securing surrender deals lay at the heart of the Afghan military’s collapse, but layers of corruption, waste and logistical failures left the country’s security forces so underequipped and with such battered morale that it enabled the militants’ success. |
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/25/afghanistan-security-forces/ |
