Two American service members were killed and one remains missing after Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks struck a U.S. military base in Jordan on Friday. Four additional service members were injured and medically evacuated, marking the first U.S. troop deaths since fighting resumed two weeks earlier.
The U.S. military conducted a strike on Tuesday against a vessel suspected of drug smuggling in the eastern Pacific Ocean, resulting in one fatality and two survivors. The incident brings the total number of people killed in such boat strikes to at least 208.
A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California's Mojave Desert on Monday, bursting into flames and killing all eight crew members aboard. The crash occurred during a routine radar modernization test flight.
General Francis Donovan, commander of U.S. Southern Command, met with senior Cuban military officials on Friday at the perimeter of Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in a rare high-level military engagement. The meeting focused on operational security matters and comes amid heightened tensions as the Trump administration increases pressure on Cuba.
