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Biden receives bodies of soldiers killed in Jordan
The Philippine Star
|February 03, 2024
DOVER (AFP) - US President Joe Biden yesterday oversaw the return to the United States of the bodies of three American soldiers, killed in a drone attack at a base in Jordan that Washington has blamed on Iran-backed militants.
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Amid strikes between US forces and Iran-backed groups in Iraq and Syria, as well as exchanges with Yemen's Houthi rebels, these were the first US military personnel killed by hostile fire in the region following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.
The bodies of William Jerome Rivers, Kennedy Ladon Sanders and Breonna Alexsondria Moffett were brought to an Air Force base in Dover, Delaware, where they were received with military honors.
The President previously received bodies at the base following the Aug. 26, 2021 bombing at Kabul airport, during the US pullout from Afghanistan.
This story is from the February 03, 2024 edition of The Philippine Star.
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