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Juanmonino/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The working theory about how an enemy drone slipped past defenses at a U.S. base in Jordan is that American personnel mistook the enemy drone for one of their own returning from a surveillance mission, two U.S. officials confirmed Monday. One U.S. official confirmed that the explosive-laden attack drone approached the base at a low altitude and hit a housing area at the remote Tower 22 base in the Jordanian desert near the border with Syria and Iraq. The attack on Sunday by Iran-backed militants killed three American service members and wounded at least 4...

The enemy drone followed the American drone as it approached, but it is not clear if it was intentional or if it was a coincidence.

Juanmonino/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The working theory about how an enemy drone slipped past defenses at a U.S. base in Jordan is that American personnel mistook the enemy drone for one of their own returning from a surveillance mission, two U.S. officials confirmed Monday. One U.S. official confirmed that the explosive-laden attack drone approached the base at a low altitude and hit a housing area at the remote Tower 22 base in the Jordanian desert near the border with Syria and Iraq. The attack on Sunday by Iran-backed militants killed three American service members and wounded at least 4...

KeithBinns/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Iranian-backed militants killed three American service members and wounded more than two dozen others in a drone attack in Jordan on Sunday, U.S. officials said, with President Joe Biden warning that the strike would be met with American retaliation. The deaths were the first in the line of fire for U.S. troops since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October, sparked by Hamas' terror attack. The U.S. has supported Israel against Hamas in Gaza but sought to prevent the conflict from enveloping the broader Middle East -- as Iranian-backed militants have...

KeithBinns/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Iranian-backed militants killed three American service members and wounded more than two dozen others in a drone attack in Jordan on Sunday, U.S. officials said, with President Joe Biden warning that the strike would be met with American retaliation. The deaths were the first in the line of fire for U.S. troops since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October, sparked by Hamas' terror attack. The U.S. has supported Israel against Hamas in Gaza but sought to prevent the conflict from enveloping the broader Middle East -- as Iranian-backed militants have...