Armed factions in Iraq announced – today, Tuesday – that they targeted two bases of American forces in Syria in response to the Israeli aggression on… Gaza strip Supported by the United States, while the US Army announced that its forces stationed in northeastern Syria were subjected to 4 attacks within 24 hours yesterday, Monday.
The “Islamic Resistance in Iraq” said – in a statement issued at dawn on Tuesday – that it targeted “the two American occupation bases in the Al-Omar oil field in Syria with a drone,” and it also targeted the American base in the Green Village deep in Syria with another drone in a separate operation.
She explained that during the two strikes, she was able to hit her “targets directly.”
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq revealed that it had, for the first time, brought into service a short-range smart missile, the Sarem model, while targeting American bases in the region.
It explained that its targeting of American military bases in the region comes as part of its response to “the crimes committed by the Zionist occupation in the Gaza Strip under American direction and management.”
4 attacks within 24 hours
Yesterday, Monday, the US Army announced that US and international forces stationed in northeastern Syria were targeted at least four times by drones and missiles in one day, noting that these attacks caused minor damage and did not result in casualties.
Reuters quoted an unnamed American official as saying that American forces in Syria were subjected to three attacks, two of which were near the Al-Omar oil field and on an American base in Al-Shaddadi.
The official said that American forces in Syria fired on several drones in the Rmeilan landing area yesterday, Monday, and confirmed that they were able to shoot down one of those drones, while one of them was able to damage 4 soldiers’ tents.
The United States announced – the day before yesterday, Sunday – that it had carried out precise strikes targeting two sites in eastern Syria, which it said were linked to Iran, in response to previous repeated attacks on American forces in Iraq and Syria, which numbered more than 45 since the seventh of last October. .
The US Department of Defense said that at least 56 American soldiers had suffered various injuries, ranging from minor to serious, since the beginning of the attacks, for which the United States holds Iranian-backed groups responsible. This was denied by Tehran, which asserts that these groups are acting of their own free will.
About 2,500 American soldiers are deployed in Iraq and about 900 others in Syria, as part of what the United States claims are missions to confront the activity of armed groups in the two countries.
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