On the morning of the 3rd, Japan time, the United States announced that it had taken retaliatory measures for the attack in Jordan that killed three American soldiers in January. According to the report, the US military conducted airstrikes against the Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps operating in Iraq and Syria.

The Iraqi government said 16 people, including several civilians, were killed in the airstrike, while Syrian human rights groups said 29 people were killed. The Biden administration is gradually becoming militarily involved in the unstable situation in the Middle East.