Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, has warned that the Middle East faced its most “dangerous” conditions since at least 1973, as Washington considers its response to an attack that killed three service members at the weekend.
Blinken’s comments on Monday underscored the concern in the Biden administration about the potential for an expansion of the conflict, even as it vows to retaliate against the Iran-backed militias it has blamed for the deadly strike.
The US military had failed to stop the enemy drone on Sunday after mistaking it for an American drone that approached a base near Jordan’s border with Syria at the same time, a US official said on Monday.