Over the weekend there was a deadly drone strike in the Middle East.

Our colleague Suna Ross Musin has been reporting on what happened.

The attack happened early on Sunday and the drone targeted a place called Tower 22, which is a small US Army outpost in the far

northeastern quarter of Jordan near the border with Syria and Iraq, but inside

Jordanian territory.

It's this kind of really barren territory.

There's not much there apart from from desert and then this outpost.

The attack killed three US service members and injured dozens more.

It's the latest in a series of attacks throughout the region since the Israel-Hama's war.

So the fact that U.S. troops were targeted and killed is concerning to the U.S. and Marx a new phase in this conflict.

A group of Iraqi militias claimed responsibility for the attack,

but the Biden administration was quick to point the finger somewhere else at

Iran for supporting the militia groups.

Iran denied any link to the drone strike, but its ties to militia groups are well established.

Iran has for the past four decades built this kind of network of armed groups and

militias across the region that he uses as kind of oscillary forces to threaten

its enemies and expand its both its military footprint but also

cultural and ideological influence.

Iran calls this network the axis of resistance.

The axis of resistance means resistance to who?

Resistance to imperialism, Western imperialism and what Iran sees as hostile influence.

And that is the United States and it's Israel.

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