Two US service members vanished during a military training exercise in southwestern Morocco, sparking a massive search effort by the US and allied forces.
Search Operation Underway
US officials announced the search-and-rescue on Sunday. The service members went missing on Saturday at the Cap Draa Training Area near Tan Tan, a city in southwestern Morocco near the Atlantic coast.
'The incident remains under investigation and the search is on-going,' United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) stated.
Details of the Exercise
The training began last month and has also been taking place in Tunisia, Ghana and Senegal. The war games exercise is called African Lion, and it is scheduled to end in early May.
African Lion is an annual military exercise, and it is the largest of its kind on the continent. It first began in 2004, and it is carried out by the US alongside regional allies.
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