Week by week the US has been pulled more deeply into a regional conflict that it was trying to avoid and on Sunday a deadly attack ratcheted up the stakes. We had a tough day last night in the Middle East.

You lost three grave soul.

Speaking at a church in South Carolina, President Biden confirmed that three US soldiers in

Jordan were killed in a drone strike. Dozens more were injured. This is the first time American

troops have been killed by enemy fire since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th.

The Islamic resistance in Iraq is taking credit for the attack in Jordan.

The U.S. government blames Iran, which backs groups like the Islamic resistance.

Iran has what it calls an access of resistance that includes several militias in Iraq, in Syria, in Lebanon, and of course now in Yemen.

Robin Wright is a distinguished fellow at the Wilson Center, a Washington DC-based think tank.

Wright says the U.S. and its allies like Israel have been the target of these Iranian-backed

militia groups.

They've been involved in Iraq, American forces who are there to deal with the remnants of the Islamic State. In Syria they've been attacked 90 times by these

Iranian-backed militias in Iraq 60 times. And then you have the Huthies firing on naval forces dozens of times now since

November 19th in the Red Sea a vital strategic waterway. We have now a whole new front opening up in Jordan and that's why this is such

an important turning point.

While Iran denies any responsibility for the drone strikes over the weekend, Wright notes

that they have a long history of supporting similar groups in the region.

Iran has armed, trained, in some cases actually created these militias,

but many of them are now two generations old.

They've been around since the 1980s, and many of them are battle-hardened.

Most of them have their own local agendas.

They also want the Americans out, but Iran is clearly

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