News - Middle East: US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has threatened that Washington plans to launch further strikes across the West Asia region in reprisal for the death of three American occupation forces in a recent drone attack in Jordan.

"We intend to take additional strikes, and additional action, to continue to send a clear message that the United States will respond when our forces are attacked, when our people are killed," Sullivan said in an interview with NBC on Sunday.

“The [US] president [,Joe Biden,] has been very clear from the beginning, which is that when American forces are attacked, we will respond, and we’ve responded several times over the course of the past few months,” he said.

In a separate interview with CBS, Sullivan also said, "What happened on Friday was the beginning, not the end, of our response, and there will be more steps – some seen, some perhaps unseen. I would not describe it as some open-ended military campaign."
On Friday, the United States carried out airstrikes on more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria.
The barrage of airstrikes was launched in response to an attack on a base in Jordan on January 28, in which three US occupation troops were killed and about 40 others injured.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq released a statement claiming responsibility for the drone attack on Al-Tanf base at the Syria-Jordan border.
In December, US officials said military bases housing American troops in Iraq and Syria had been attacked at least 97 times since October 17.