Three American Military Trainers Shot And Killed In Jordan
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon says three U.S. military members were killed in a shooting outside a military base in southern Jordan. A spokesman says the three were in Jordan on a training mission, and came under fire while driving into the base.
Jordan is a key U.S. ally, and a member of a U.S.-led military coalition fighting the Islamic State group, which controls parts of neighboring Iraq and Syria.
In addition to the U.S. casualties, officials say a Jordanian officer was wounded.
Jordan faces homegrown extremism, with hundreds of Jordanians fighting alongside IS militants in Iraq and Syria and several thousand more supporting the extremist group in the kingdom.
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