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A Pentagon official told Al Jazeera on Thursday that 3 American soldiers were slightly injured in an attack on the Green Village base in Syria yesterday, Wednesday.
The Green Village base is located near the Al-Omar oil field in Deir ez-Zor, northeastern Syria, and has previously been subjected to attacks.
The announcement of the injury of American soldiers at this base comes after a series of attacks targeting other bases in Syria that include American forces and others affiliated with the international coalition to combat… State regulation.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced that the US Air Force bombed a “weapons facility” in Deir ez-Zor on Wednesday. He said that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards And affiliated groups use it.
This is the second strike within days carried out by the US Air Force against a facility in Syria that Washington says belongs to armed groups linked to Iran.
Drones and an explosive device
In Iraq, the Ain al-Asad base in Anba Governorate (west) and the Al-Harir base in Erbil (north) were targeted again by drones.
A faction calling itself the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq” announced that it targeted the Harir base at dawn today with two drones, stressing that the drones “directly hit their targets.”
However, Reuters quoted two Iraqi security sources as saying that a drone tried to target the Harir base, but the air defenses shot it down.
The two sources also said that another march that attempted to target the Ain al-Assad base in Anbar was shot down.
Near the city of Mosul (north), an explosive device targeted a joint patrol of the American forces and the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service, causing damage to a vehicle but causing no casualties, according to what Reuters quoted the two security sources as saying.
Since the outbreak of the Israeli war on Gaza following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood launched by the Palestinian resistance on October 7, there have been repeated attacks on bases housing American forces in Iraq and Syria.
The Pentagon said that the attacks caused dozens of American soldiers to be slightly injured.
