The U.S. launched dozens of airstrikes against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and Iranian-aligned groups in Iraq and Syria on Feb. 2, followed by more Feb. 3 against Houthi rebels in Yemen—retaliating after a drone strike killed three American service members in ...
Three U.S. service members were killed and at least 34 troops were injured in an overnight attack at a base in Jordan Jan. 28, the U.S. said. It marked the first U.S. troops killed in the region since the Israel-Hamas war began in October and ...
An American MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed in northern Iraq on Jan. 18 as the U.S. continues to fend off attacks from Iran-backed militias, U.S. officials told Air & Space Forces Magazine. The MQ-9 was likely downed by an Iranian-provided surface-to-air missile fired by an Iranian-affiliated ...
American and British aircraft and warships carried out strikes against multiple targets in Houthi-controlled Yemen on Jan. 11, in response to continuing attacks on commercial shipping, U.S. and U.K. officials said.
The U.S. conducted a drone strike in Iraq on Dec. 3, as the American troops there continue to be targeted by Iranian-backed militants. The strike took place near Kirkuk as the militants were preparing to attack U.S. troops in northern Iraq, a U.S. official told ...
U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers have flown missions over the Middle East three times in the last week and a half—a surge in activity amid widespread unrest in the region. The flights took place Nov. 5, 8, and 13, and U.S. Central Command did not disclose ...
The Pentagon released declassified videos of its most recent airstrikes in eastern Syria, a move that provides fresh detail on the targets that were struck Nov. 12 and the damage to the sites.
Two U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles conducted an airstrike in eastern Syria in response to escalating attacks against U.S. forces by Iranian-backed groups, the Defense Department said Nov. 8. The target was a weapons storage facility used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ...
U.S. troops have been attacked by Iranian-backed militias at least 23 times in less than two weeks, Pentagon officials said Oct. 30, providing the most comprehensive account of the American military’s recent confrontation with Tehran’s proxies in Iraq and Syria. Several of the militia attacks took ...
The U.S. carried out airstrikes against two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and militias they support, the Pentagon announced Oct. 26. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said the “narrowly tailored” strikes were intended to respond to a ...
A U.S. Navy warship in the Red Sea shot down three cruise missiles and several drones on Oct. 19 that were launched by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and potentially heading toward Israel, the Pentagon said. The U.S. military also disclosed that there have been additional drone ...
Two drone attacks were launched against U.S. forces in Iraq in the span of 24 hours, the U.S. military said. The attacks, which took place in western and northern Iraq, came as a wave of unrest swept Arab nations over Israel's clash with Hamas. They ...