U.S. Troops Are Being Attacked Every Other Day in the Middle East

U S troops in the Middle East have come under attack close to times at a minimum since the outbreak of the Israel Hamas war according to figures provided to The Intercept by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Central Command The strikes predominantly by Iranian-backed militias and the Houthi administration in Yemen include a mix of one-way attack drones rockets mortars and ballistic missiles fired at fixed bases and U S warships across the region These groups ramped up attacks on U S targets in October in response to the U S -supported Israeli war on Gaza The casualty revelations come as President Donald Trump publicized a ceasefire with the Houthis claiming they had capitulated to the United States The Houthis have communicated to us at least that they don t want to fight anymore Trump recounted reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday We will stop the bombings he continued noting that U S attacks would end this instant Mohammed Ali al-Houthi a member of the Houthi Supreme Political Council declared the Houthis had not directly agreed to the U S -proposed ceasefire The Houthis would evaluate the U S proposal on the ground first he posted on Tuesday When petitioned for clarification regarding Trump s alleges White House spokesperson Anna Kelly mentioned Trump s remarks were clear Related Trump Reasserts U S as the World s Policeman With Massive Yemen Escalation Houthi strikes on U S forces which began during the Biden administration continued during Trump s second term despite threats that continued attacks would be met with overwhelming force To all Houthi terrorists YOUR TIME IS UP AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP STARTING IN THE PRESENT DAY IF THEY DON T HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE Trump ranted on TruthSocial on March Trump then decreed that the Houthis would be entirely annihilated In what Trump described as large-scale strikes in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen the U S targeted civilian infrastructure and according to local reports killed scores of innocent people The attacks on Yemen have continued with Israel and the United Kingdom joining in the bombardment More than a month after Trump s bellicose boasts however the Houthis have continued to strike at U S military personnel just as they and militant groups across the Middle East have done hundreds of times since the beginning of the Gaza war U S Navy vessels in the region have been the majority of frequent target coming under attack times since October Central Command reported The Intercept There have also been about attacks on U S bases in the region since the Gaza war began according to Pentagon spokesperson Patricia Kreuzberger This amounts to roughly one attack every days on average This includes more than attacks on U S outposts in Syria and a lesser number in Iraq and Jordan A January drone attack on Tower a facility in the latter country killed three U S troops The Pentagon in recent times bragged that it had attacked more than Houthi targets since March as part of Operation Rough Rider while denigrating the Houthis ability to strike back at the U S military Related Hey Elon We Determined a Place to Cut More Than Trillion in Wasteful Spending Just last week a million U S Navy F A- Super Hornet fighter was lost at sea when it fell overboard from the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier The Truman reportedly made a sharp turn to evade a Houthi attack which caused the jet to plunge overboard One sailor was injured in the chaos After a month of Trump s empty threats to annihilate us I am responding to you not from the afterlife but from this worldly life specifically from Al-Sab een Square in the capital Sana a Nasruddin Amer a Houthi spokesman stated The Intercept by direct message calling Trump a laughingstock ahead of the declared ceasefire Amer explained that Houthi attacks had in fact destroyed two F A- s CENTCOM pushed back on this Houthis continue to communicate lies and disinformation an unnamed defense official advised The Intercept Their messaging depends on lies Amid the rising death toll in Yemen chosen lawmakers have been pressing for an end to U S attacks We cannot bomb our way to peace As someone who s seen the human cost of war and displacement I know we need a foreign guidelines rooted in human rights stated Rep Ilhan Omar on Tuesday as feminist leaders gathered on Capitol Hill to unveil the Feminist Peace Playbook a foreign approach strategy that runs counter to Trump s antagonistic approach Although he wasted little time in launching his own bombing campaign in Yemen this year as a presidential candidate Trump was critical of Biden administration attacks on the Houthis It s crazy You can solve problems over the telephone Instead they start dropping bombs I see in recent months they re dropping bombs all over Yemen You don t have to do that You can talk in such a way where they respect you and they listen to you Trump noted in a May interview with podcaster Tim Pool America s enemies specifically Iranian-backed militias have been striking U S bases intermittently since the late s Regular tit-for-tat attacks began in January when Iran s top general Qassim Suleimani was killed near the Baghdad airport in a U S drone strike authorized by Trump Trump revealed the U S was totally prepared for Iran to retaliate which it did by firing ballistic missiles at two American bases in Iraq All is well Trump proclaimed in the wake of the attack as the U S claimed no U S troops were killed or wounded Weeks later the Pentagon admitted that there were literally U S casualties Not long ago U S Central Command the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the White House have orchestrated a casualty cover-up refusing to disclose the number of U S troops killed or wounded in Houthi attacks Under the Biden administration the Office of the Secretary of Defense and CENTCOM provided detailed input on attacks on military bases across the Middle East including to this reporter CENTCOM provided the total number of attacks breakdowns by country and the total number injured The Pentagon offered even more granular information providing individual synopses of more than attacks including information on deaths and injuries not only to U S troops but even civilian contractors working on U S bases The post U S Troops Are Being Attacked Every Other Day in the Middle East appeared first on The Intercept