Missing U.S. Soldier in Jordan Presumed Dead as Trump Eyes Pickaxe Mountain
The war with Iran is stretching into its second week of nonstop strikes, and the human toll keeps quietly climbing while politicians eye the next underground target.
A 28-year-old Army sergeant missing since last week's attack on an air base in Jordan has officially been declared dead by the Pentagon. That brings the death toll from this latest round of fighting to four service members, alongside dozens killed since the broader regional war erupted earlier this year.
Meanwhile, another soldier was killed in Iraq during a controlled detonation of a downed strike drone. Despite 11 straight nights of traded airstrikes with zero diplomatic off-ramps in sight, Trump publicly promised to strike Iran's fortified Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site "very heavily" in the near future.
While Washington calculates target lists and multi-billion-dollar price tags, the conflict continues to expand across three separate countries without a clear endpoint.
A war that started as a shipping dispute in a narrow strait is now measuring its duration in months and its budget in tens of billions.
Source: UPI
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