The defense department on Sunday identified three US army trainers who were killed on Friday when their convoy came under fire as it entered a military base in Jordan. Three members of US military killed in Jordan army base shooting Read moreThe Pentagon said the three were members part of an army special forces group based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Details of the deadly incident – which was unusual given the close political and military ties between Washington and Amman – remain under investigation. A Jordanian military source told Reuters the US trainers were fired on by Jordanian security forces when they failed to stop at the gate of Prince Faisal air base in the south of the country. In November 2015, a Jordanian police captain opened fire in an international police training facility, killing two Americans and three others.

Source: The Guardian November 06, 2016 16:41 UTC