U.S. military personnel in southeastern Syria have been injured by a drone attack during the Iraq-Israel war, according to the Health Ministry

Three service members were injured by a drone strike in northern Iraq, one of them critically. In response, the U.S. said it carried out multiple airstrikes against facilities used by militants.

Tower 22 supports the Al-Tanf Garrison, which is located in southeastern Syria.

An Iran-backed umbrella group of militias called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it was behind the attack, but Iran denied involvement. The group said it was revenge for the US military presence in the region. According to the health ministry in Gaza, there have been more than 30,000 deaths since the beginning of the war.

Iran’s militias backed the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which claimed credit for the attack. The group called it revenge for America’s military presence in the region and the Palestinian death toll in Gaza.

It claimed to have attacked at least four military bases on Sunday including three in Syria and one in Israel. There has been no proof of other attacks from U.S. officials.

Some 900 U.S. troops are stationed in Syria to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Since the war between Israel and Hamas began, Iran has carried out more than 140 attacks in the two countries.

A number of U.S. military personnel have been evaluated for traumatic brain injuries, after Iran-backed groups launched multiple missiles and rockets on an air base in western Iraq. Most of the missiles were intercepted but at least one Iraqi service member was wounded, it added.

The Status of the Middle East and the U.S.-Israel War in the Light of Monday’s Attack in Jordan and the Damascus Attack

“But frankly, I think we’ve crossed that threshold now,” she said. “The danger is that you see the Americans going in to try to prevent a wider war, to contain the violence, and instead only providing more targets.”

“There will be a response” to Sunday’s attack, John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council, told NPR’s Steve Inskeep on Monday, and it will be “calibrated to hopefully have a better effect on the decision-making of these groups.”

“We’re going to take the right time to make the appropriate response decisions in the wake of this attack,” he said. The president is taking it very seriously.

President Biden met on Monday with National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and others, including his Middle East envoy Brett McGurk, to discuss the growing threats.

Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported that the Syrian military said that Israeli strikes outside the capital Damascus on Monday killed and wounded several people.

The Iranian-backed Houthis have been attacking international cargo ships in the Red Sea with drones and missiles since November. They say it is a response to Israel’s war in Gaza. The U.S has retaliated with strikes.

Kirby insisted that the US was not talking about the current spike in violence as a regional war despite describing Sunday’s attack in Jordan as “escalatory”.

“We do not want to see a wider conflict,” Kirby said. The president has been trying to prevent a larger conflict since the 7th of October. We are not looking for a war with Iran.”

Robin Wright, a distinguished fellow at the Wilson Center, told Morning Edition that there had been communications between Washington and Tehran to stop the war between Israel and Gaza.