US troops in Iraq shot down a suicide drone launched at them from Iranian proxy forces this morning.

The drone was fired at troops at the Al-Assad Air Base.

Here’s more via ABC News:

Fewer than 12 hours after U.S. airstrikes hit two facilities in Syria used by Iran and its proxies to launch attacks on American troops in the region, a one-way suicide drone targeted U.S. forces in western Iraq, according to U.S. officials.

The drone got within a few kilometers of U.S. forces at Al-Assad Air Base, Iraq, at approximately 7 a.m. ET on Friday morning. The troops fired upon the unmanned vehicle and “successfully shot it down without further incident,” according to a U.S. official.

The attack was launched by Iran-backed militants, an official said.

Iran-backed groups have now launched 20 attacks on U.S. service members in the last 10 days, injuring at least 21 of them, with many reporting symptoms of traumatic brain injury, according to the Pentagon.

So far, the U.S. has not launched any counter strike in response to the latest drone attack.

“The latest attack at al-Asad needs to be responded to with force, force capable of changing their calculus about attacking our people in the future,” said ABC News contributor Mick Mulroy, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East.

I agree. The US needs to respond with overwhelming and disproportionate force or else they’ll just keep firing at our troops and potentially killing some of them. But this is Biden we’re talking about, so he’ll probably just send them a cease and desist letter and beg them not to declare war on us.