Two Iranian males have been charged in reference to a deadly drone strike earlier this 12 months that killed three U.S. army service members and injured dozens extra.
Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi was arrested in Massachusetts and was anticipated to seem in courtroom Monday. The different suspect, Mohammad Abedininajafabadi, was arrested in Italy and was within the custody of Italian authorities, federal prosecutors stated.
The prices are linked to the lethal Jan. 28 strike towards U.S. forces, the primary since the Israel-Hamas war started in October 2023.
Three Army reservists – Sgt. William Jerome Rivers; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, all Georgia residents – have been killed on Jan. 28 in Jordan and 47 others have been injured in a drone assault that focused a small army base often known as Tower 22 close to the Syrian and Iraqi border.
All three have been assigned to the 718th Engineer Company, 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, in Fort Moore, Georgia.
Seen right here from left to proper are Sgt. Kennedy Sanders, Staff Sgt. William Jerome Rivers and Sgt. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett. These three U.S. Army Reserve troopers have been killed by a drone strike on their base in Jordan close to the Syrian border on Jan. 28, 2024. (Shawn Sanders and U.S. Army through AP, File)
The troopers have been deployed in Jordan in assist of Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S. army’s title for the battle towards the Islamic State terror group.
Rivers, 46, served within the Army Reserve as an inside electrician; whereas Sanders, 24, and Moffett, 23, labored as horizontal development engineers.
In response to the lethal assault, the U.S. launched retaliatory strikes on greater than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria towards Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia teams.
The targets included command and management operations, intelligence facilities, militia group’s rockets, missiles, unmanned car storages and supply chain facilities, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) stated on the time.
A map depicting the placement of Tower 22 in northeast Jordan, close to the borders of Syria and Iraq. (Fox News)
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The troopers’ deaths marked an escalation of violence towards U.S. forces within the Middle East. At the time, the Biden administration blamed the assaults on U.S. assist for Israel amid its ongoing battle towards Hamas.
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