The US has bolstered defences at its Tower 22 base in Jordan as it prepares to respond to the drone attack that killed three service members there, an American official has said.
A second official said the military had carried out self-defence strikes inside Yemen today against Houthi military targets deemed an imminent threat.
British and American forces conducted three strikes in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah, a Houthi stronghold, reported Al-Masirah, a Houthi-run news channel.
Some Iran-backed factions, such as Harakat al-Nujaba in Iraq, have pledged to continue to attack US forces despite a US military response seemingly imminent.
Options under consideration include targets in Syria, Yemen and Iraq, where the Iranian-made drone that killed the service members was fired from, one of the US officials said.
“At this point, it’s time to take away even more capability than we’ve taken in the past,” US defence secretary Lloyd Austin said.
Iran-backed militia groups throughout the region have used the conflict between Israel and Hamas to justify striking US facilities at least 166 times.
The US blamed the Jordan attack on the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of Iranian-backed militias.
America has tried to communicate through backchannels to Iran over the last few months to get them to rein in the militant groups, another US official said.
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