The attack on an American base in Jordan near the Syrian border killed 3 soldiers (Associated Press)
The White House announced - today, Wednesday - that the "Islamic Resistance in Iraq" was behind a drone attack that killed 3 American soldiers and injured dozens at a military base in Jordan near the border with Syria.
US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, "Our intelligence community tends to assume that the Islamic Resistance Group in Iraq, which includes a number of factions loyal to Iran, carried out the attack."
In a related context, a senior official in the US Treasury Department - who refused to reveal his identity - said that Washington expects the Iraqi government to help it obstruct the financing of armed factions in the country, after the attack that targeted the American base in Jordan. .
Yesterday, Tuesday, the armed Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades suspended its military and security operations against the American forces with the aim of preventing any embarrassment to the Iraqi government, against the backdrop of the repercussions of the first attack that inflicted human losses on the American forces since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the start of the war in Gaza on the seventh of last October.
The Pentagon said that a drone attack on an American military site near the Jordanian-Syrian border on Sunday bore the "fingerprints" of the Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah.
Groups allied with Iran have launched attacks on Israeli and American targets from Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Syria since the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7.
American forces in Iraq and Syria have been subjected to 165 attacks - including the attack in northeastern Jordan - since last October 17, according to what the Pentagon announced.
Meanwhile, Iraqi armed factions have claimed responsibility for more than 150 attacks on American forces in the region since then.
Source: Al Jazeera + agencies