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Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we start today with big news in our world lead.

Top White House officials say they do not want to go

to war with Iran but they are promising a serious response after a weekend drone

attack killed three US Army soldiers and wounded more than 40 others. The attack happened at a

small US outpost known as Tower 22 in Jordan. This is near the border with

Syria and Iraq. This happened early yesterday morning. This afternoon the

Pentagon identified the fallen soldiers as 46 year old Sergeant William Rivers,

24 year old specialist Kennedy Sanders, 23-year-old specialist Brianna Moffett.

This is the first time U.S. troops have been killed by enemy fire since the withdrawal from

Afghanistan in 2021.

Some of the most gravely wounded have been evacuated to a medical center in Germany

and the number of injured is expected to keep rising because it can take time for symptoms of traumatic brain injuries. of time in the Middle East in more than 50 years.

U.S. officials say they're still trying to figure out exactly who was behind the attack,

but this afternoon Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said,

the Pentagon is confident that the militia is a group supported

by Iran.

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