{"id":8914,"date":"2026-05-03T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2026-05-03T12:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:02:16","slug":"search-ongoing-for-2-u-s-service-members-missing-after-training-exercises-in-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=8914","title":{"rendered":"Search ongoing for 2 U.S. service members missing after training exercises in Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n  <!-- lil observer --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>Two U.S. service members are missing in southwestern Morocco after taking part in annual multinational military exercises in the North African country, the United States African Command said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S., Morocco and other countries participating in the African Lion exercise has a search and rescue operation, AFRICOM said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The incident remains under investigation and the search is on-going,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on May 2 near the Cap Draa Training Area near Tan Tan, close to the Atlantic Ocean. The exercise started in April and is billed to end early May.<\/p>\n<p>African Lion, a war games exercise, is the largest annual joint military exercise on the continent and usually features high-ranking military officials from the U.S. and its top African allies.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. military officials have said the annual multinational engagement serves as a venue for strengthening regional security cooperation and refining the readiness of participating forces for global crises.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n        <\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p> Search ongoing for 2 U.S. service members missing after training exercises in Morocco<br \/>\n<br \/>#Search #ongoing #U.S #service #members #missing #training #exercises #Morocco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two U.S. service members are missing in southwestern Morocco after taking part in annual multinational&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7707,1327,1949,7708,5458,1001,1326,2004,774],"class_list":["post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-exercises","tag-members","tag-missing","tag-morocco","tag-ongoing","tag-search","tag-service","tag-training","tag-u-s"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-1435561510.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-1435561510-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-1435561510-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-1435561510-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-1435561510-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-1435561510.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-1435561510.jpg",1200,630,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-1435561510-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-1435561510-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}