of the bodies of the three american soldiers killed in that drone attack injordan. the three sergeants williamj rivers, kennedy sanders and breonna moffett died in the strike near the border with syria on sunday. mr biden and the first lady, jill biden met the plane carrying their bodies that arrived at an air force base in dover, delaware. it s where they received military honours. that installation is where the remains of fallen us service members first return to the united states. the white house has said the attack on its military base known as tower 22, which wounded a0 others, was carried out by an iran backed militia called islamic resistance in iraq. iran denies involvement, calling the accusations baseless and saying it was not involved in the decision making of resistance groups . meanwhile, an iraqi spokesman has responded to the strikes saying: he added that the outcomes will have severe implications on the security and stability in the region. earlier, my c
against civlians whatever the national origin, ethnicity or religion. concerns been raised about israel and palestinian counterparts in violence in the west bank and stresses that israel must do more to stop violence against civilians and hold accountable those responsible. the second development in the us actions in relation to the middle east is the approval of plans for strikes against iranian personnel and facilities in iraq and syria. thisis in response to the drone attack sunday which killed three american soldiers in jordan. our us news partner, cbs, says the action will be launched over a number of days. several iran backed groups have increased attacks on us and israel linked entities since the israel hamas war began. us defense secretary lloyd austin called on iran to stop supplying weapons to houthi rebels in yemen. he adds that although the us does not want a wider conflict, it reserves the right to respond to attacks on american personnel in the region. so this i
that the us is not seeking war with iran. as the middle east braces for a us response, some members of congress have called for retaliation against not only iran s proxy forces, but iran itself. others have argued the president does not have the authority for such strikes unless authorized by congress. republican congressman mike turner, who chairs the house intelligence committee, told the bbc the us response was likely to be robust. the provocation is iran. what they are doing and both providing weapons and training and funding for these groups throughout the middle east, they are the source of the instability, i was briefed by the director of national intelligence, our director of the cia met with secretary for nato and he indicated that he understands that this is an attack upon the west and certainly it is effecting commerce, affecting our allies, , our lives, the fact that it was like that we ve seen here in the united states. and as they experience in israel. this need
to come and they have shown that against top teams. we suffered it last year and this year we wanted to put it right. i think we were really dominant, really intelligent to play the game that we had to be, we were patient where we had to be, we were really vertical attacking when we had spaces to do so, and yeah, the shame is that at the end we didn t defend that situation well enough and in the end in this league, you have to suffer the last few minutes. a superb win for newcastle united, in the late game, over aston villa. they won 3 1 at villa park to go seventh. villa missing the chance to keep pace at the top. defender fabian schar with two goals to put newcastle in the ascendancy, before an own goal put them three up. ollie watkins pulled one back for villa, and thought he had another which was ruled out for offside. the victory for newcastle ends a run of four straight league defeats. a big result for us today. we knew all eyes were on us, really. we ve been on a disap
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