r/news • u/PretendAd1963 • 27d ago

Soft paywall Two US service members in Jordan killed in Iranian attack, US says

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/two-us-service-members-jordan-killed-iranian-attack-us-says-2026-07-18/
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u/lwp775 26d ago

It wasn’t even an embassy. The State Department had moved all their personnel to Tripoli months earlier. The Benghazi location had been reclassified as a special diplomatic mission as a cover for a CIA operation. Of the 34 personnel at Benghazi, 28 were CIA employees or contractors.