Her Cellphone Vanished in a Lethal Drone Strike. Then Came a ‘Miracle.’
An iPhone with a cartoony, angel-winged teddy bear on its case kept catching the soldier’s eye. The phone was stashed in the closet of a back room in what amounted to a lost-and-found locker at a remote U.S. military outpost in the Jordanian desert. Staff Sgt. Zachary Winthers of the Illinois Army National Guard had […]
Two Charged in Connection with Iran-Backed Drone Strike that Killed 3 US Troops in the Middle East
BOSTON — Two men, including a dual Iranian American citizen, have been arrested on charges that they exported sensitive technology to Iran that was used in a drone attack in Jordan that killed three American troops early this year and injured dozens of other service members, the Justice Department said Monday. The pair were arrested […]
Georgia Mourners Gather to Pay Tribute to Reservist Killed in Drone Strike
SAVANNAH, Ga. — In a solemn ceremony Thursday morning outside Windsor Forest High School in Savannah, JROTC cadets lowered the U.S. and Georgia state flags to half-staff in memory of graduate and U.S. Army Reservist Sgt. Breonna Moffett, one of three Georgia reservists killed in the Jordan drone attack. Moffett, who died a week after […]
Biden Says US ‘Shall Respond’ After Drone Strike by Iran-Backed Group Kills 3 US Troops in Jordan
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Sunday that the U.S. “shall respond” after three American troops were killed and dozens more were injured in an overnight drone strike in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border. Biden blamed Iran-backed militias for the first U.S. fatalities after months of strikes by such groups against American […]