According to Washington, the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq” movement is responsible

A nebula of groups “Islamic Resistance in Iraq » Jordan is behind an attack that killed three American soldiers on Sunday, a White House spokesman said Wednesday. “Our intelligence services are confident that (the attack) was carried out by a group in Iraq called the Islamic Resistance.”

A nebula of fighters from pro-Iranian armed groups, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told a press conference.

This group “understand” The Hezbollah brigade, he noted, is a deadly attack “Definitely missed the mark” of this influential pro-Iranian armed group in Iraq. But he stopped short of specifically assigning responsibility for the attack to the Hezbollah brigade, which announced Tuesday “to suspend” Their military operations against American forces.

Response “graduate”

A drone strike on Sunday targeted an American logistics base located in the middle of the Jordanian desert on the border between Iraq and Syria. Three people were killed and several dozen wounded, according to the US military. On Tuesday, John Kirby said “possible” That the United States responds in one way to this attack “graduate”with “Possible Multiple Actions”.

The United States has suffered numerous attacks on locations in the Middle East since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas but had not reported any human casualties during the attacks until Sunday.

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