Washington | President Joe Biden said on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT) that he had decided on a US response to the drone attack on a remote outpost in Jordan on Sunday that killed three American soldiers and injured more than 40 others, leaving unstated what that decision was.

Biden administration officials have blamed an explosives-laden drone, most likely launched by an Iran-backed militia in Iraq, for the attack – the most deadly of the more than 160 militia attacks the Pentagon says US forces have come under in the region since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip nearly four months ago.