WASHINGTON – US F-15E Strike Eagles coordinated with UK, French and Jordanian fighter pilots to intercept dozens of Iranian drones fired towards Israel overnight on Sunday, helping to thwart the massive counterattack by Iran that risked dragging the region into war.

The retaliatory attack was the first to involve strikes from Iranian territory directly towards Israel, signaling a potential turning point in the decades-long covert conflict between Israel and the Islamic Republic.

Biden administration officials said Iran’s attack, which targeted Israeli military sites, was designed to inflict significant damage and casualties. But only Israel’s air base at Nevatim sustained minor damage in the multi-wave assault, officials said following the attack. There were no reported deaths, but a 7-year-old Bedouin girl in the Negev region was seriously injured from missile shrapnel.

“If successful, this attack could have caused an uncontrollable escalation, a broad regional conflict,” a senior administration senior official told reporters.

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WASHINGTON – US F-15E Strike Eagles coordinated with UK, French and Jordanian fighter pilots to intercept dozens of Iranian drones fired towards Israel overnight on Sunday, helping to thwart the massive counterattack by Iran that risked dragging the........

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