{"id":1478,"date":"2024-08-06T01:57:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T01:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2024-08-06T01:59:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T01:59:00","slug":"1478","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"Biden is briefed on the response to the rocket fire that wounded American soldiers in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 5, local time, U.S. Vice President Biden and vice president Harriss were briefed on the situation in the Middle East at a White House Situation Room CNN, Axios News reported, including the wounding of n soldiers in Iraq. \u201cParticipants discussed measures to defend American forces and to respond to any attack on American personnel in a manner and location of our choosing,\u201d the White House said in a statement<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1479\" title=\"700136211a306a3f36be081b9ec6c515u1\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/700136211a306a3f36be081b9ec6c515u1.png\" alt=\"700136211a306a3f36be081b9ec6c515u1\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/700136211a306a3f36be081b9ec6c515u1.png 1260w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/700136211a306a3f36be081b9ec6c515u1-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/700136211a306a3f36be081b9ec6c515u1-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/700136211a306a3f36be081b9ec6c515u1-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1260px) 100vw, 1260px\" \/><br \/>\nOn the 5th, local time, Biden was White House Situation Room a briefing on the situation in the Middle East<\/p>\n<p>Earlier media reports, a military base in Iraq 5 was hit by a rocket attack, causing injuries to several U. S. personnel, the attack allegedly occurred in Iraq&#8217;s al-assad Air Base. A U.S. official said the Pentagon expects more attacks by pro-iranian forces on U.S. forces in the region in the coming days, Axios news.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the White House national security team reportedly reported to Biden and Harriss that it was unclear when the Iranians and Hezbollah would launch an attack on Israel. Biden was told that US intelligence was expecting two attacks, one from Hezbollah and one from the Iranian side. But U. S. intelligence remains unclear about who will strike first and what kind of attack they will carry out. Reported that a U. S. official said intelligence shows that Iran and Hezbollah response is still\u201cIn the preparatory stage,\u201d neither side has decided what to do.<\/p>\n<p>The Hezbollah&#8217;s senior military commander, Shoqur, was killed in an Israeli attack. In addition, Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas&#8217;s politburo, was also assassinated in Tehran, Iran, and Hamas accused the assassination was carried out by Israel and vowed to retaliate. Now, Israel is preparing to deal with these incidents triggered by\u201cMulti-faceted retaliation.\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 5, local time, U.S. Vice President Biden and vice president Harriss were briefed on the situation in the Middle East at a White House Situation Room CNN, Axios&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267,266],"tags":[337,406,366],"views":192,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}