Correspondent in Washington
An explosive drone, launched on January 28 by a pro-Iranian Shiite militia against the American base Tower 22 in Jordan, brought the United States a little closer to a confrontation that it seeks at all costs to avoid: a conflict with Iran.
The death of three American soldiers in this attack, which also left dozens injured, forced the Biden Administration to respond.
Five days later, American long-range B-1 bombers taking off from the United States attacked more than 85 targets, mainly bases and command and logistics centers of several Shiite militias affiliated with the Al-Force. Quds (Jerusalem), the special operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Then, last Wednesday, an American drone killed in the eastern suburbs of Baghdad one of the commanders of the Kataeb Hezbollah militia, an Iraqi organization, also affiliated with Iran, which the Americans designated...
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