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President Biden and first lady Jill Biden attend the dignified transfer of the remains of three U.S. service members killed in a drone attack on a U.S. military outpost in Jordan, at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Friday.

U.S. hits Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria in retaliation for deadly strikes

6:18pm February 02, 2024

The strikes are more extensive and deadly than those launched since last October, when the Israeli-Gaza war began and pro-Iranian groups started an uptick of attacks.

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a press conference at the Pentagon last week.

U.S. and militias linked to Iran trade airstrikes in Syria, Pentagon says

5:31pm March 24, 2023

by Emily Olson

A group believed to be linked to Iran fired a drone that killed one U.S. contractor and injured six others, the Pentagon said. The U.S. retaliated, and also faced a second attack on Friday.

Osama bin Laden (left) sits with his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, for an interview that was published in November 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks. The U.S. says it killed al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Kabul on Sunday.

3 things the strike on al-Zawahiri tell us about the U.S. counterterrorism strategy

3:03pm August 02, 2022

The U.S. targeted the top al-Qaida leader, showing it could track down and strike against a hard-to-find extremist figure even in a country where the U.S. has no military or diplomatic presence.

"The secretary's not approving or calling for additional accountability measures," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters at a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington on Monday.

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No U.S. troops behind a drone strike that killed Afghan civilians will be punished

7:01pm December 13, 2021

by Vanessa Romo

Defense Secretary Austin approved recommendations aimed at preventing similar future tragedies. But the troops involved in the strike that killed 10 people, including 7 children, are off the hook.

Afghans inspect damage of the Ahmadi family house after a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 29. The strike, which the Pentagon originally deemed a success in striking an ISIS-K target, killed 10 civilians, none of whom were associated with

U.S. will provide condolence payments to families of Kabul drone strike victims

11:11am October 16, 2021

by Deepa Shivaram

The Aug. 29 U.S. drone strike was supposed to target ISIS-K members, but the attack killed 10 Afghan civilians. Now those victims' families will get unspecified condolence payments.

The aftermath of a U.S. drone strike on a car allegedly driven by Zemari Ahmadi.

Reports: U.S. Drone Strike Targeted Aid Worker Carrying Water, Not Explosives

8:29pm September 11, 2021

by Matthew S. Schwartz

Investigations from The New York Times and The Washington Post call into question a recent U.S. military drone strike against an alleged ISIS-K sympathizer.