President Biden promised to ‘respond’ after a drone attack by “radical Iran-backed militant groups” killed three U.S. troops in Jordan over the weekend, plunging the U.S. ever deeper into the burgeoning conflict in the Middle East.
At an event in South Carolina, President Biden addressed the strike and the loss of life. “We lost three brave souls in an attack on one of our bases,” he said, before asking for a moment of silence for the fallen. He broke it by vowing: “We shall respond.”
The soldiers were killed in a drone strike in northeast Jordan on Saturday, U.S. Central Command said in a statement, while another 25 service members were injured.
