{"id":1904115,"date":"2023-03-23T23:55:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T03:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-contractor-killed-service-members-wounded-in-drone-strike\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T23:56:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T03:56:41","slug":"u-s-contractor-killed-service-members-wounded-in-drone-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-contractor-killed-service-members-wounded-in-drone-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Contractor Killed, Service Members Wounded In Drone Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-contractor-killed-service-members-wounded-in-drone-strike%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1904115&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>On Thursday, a helicopter with Persian ancestry killed one American company and injured five service members as well as another contractor in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/syria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Syria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a push release released on Thursday night, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/pentagon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pentagon<\/a> revealed the assault, claiming that the U.S. army had launched attacks against members of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which the United States had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/foreign-terrorist-organizations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">designated<\/a> as terrorist organization in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/3339691\/us-conducts-airstrikes-in-syria-in-response-to-deadly-uav-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> that he had given President Biden the go-ahead for U.S. Central Command forces to launch precision airstrikes tonight in eastern Syria against facilities used by organizations associated with Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps( IRGC ). &#8221; The attacks were carried out in response to today&#8217;s assault as well as a number of recent attacks by IRGC-affiliated groups against Coalition troops in Syria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A one-way unmanned aerial vehicle struck a protection service for coalition troops near Hasakah in north Syria on Thursday afternoon, prompting the U.S. attacks. Two of the six attackers were treated on-site, while the others and the American company were taken to health services in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>We will take all necessary steps to protect our people, as President Biden has made clear, and we will always react at a time and location of our purchasing, according to Austin. &#8221; No collection will attack our forces without consequence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued,&#8221; Our minds are with the family and coworkers of the company who was killed and with those who were hurt in the earlier harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy in Syria occurred as U.S. and strange officials&#8217; worries about the status of Iran&#8217;s nuclear program have grown. Iran is&#8221; several more months&#8221; away from developing an&#8221; actual nuclear weapon ,&#8221; according to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley, who testified before lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish leaders, who have become more vocal in recent months about the danger of a nuclear Iran and Israel&#8217;s resolve to act and prevent such an outcome, have been alarmed by the situation. According to reports, Israeli leaders have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/03\/22\/israel-iran-enriching-uranium-above-60-israeli-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a> American and European officials that Israel will break Iran if it enriches uranium past the 60 % mark. After being enriched to 90 %, uranium is weapons-grade.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-441512\">TO GET THE Every WIRE Application, CLICK HERE.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Russia and China have also supported Iran at the same time. S-400 missile systems, an anti-air missile system that Israel fears could shield Iran&#8217;s nuclear services from an exist, are reportedly being considered by Russia for Iran. As the middleman for a subsequent partnership between Iran and Saudi Arabia, China has assisted Iran in establishing diplomatic relations in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drone of Iranian origin killed one U.S. contractor and wounded five service members and another contractor in Syria on Thursday. The Pentagon disclosed the attack in a press release Thursday evening, saying that the U.S. military carried out airstrikes against affiliates of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which the U.S. designated as a terror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1904116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[16853,11948,3940,4400,4522,7238,13770],"class_list":["post-1904115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-contractor","tag-drone","tag-killed","tag-service","tag-strike","tag-u-s","tag-wounded"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}