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A United States military base in the eastern Syrian governorate of Deir Ezzor came under attack late on August 13, with no reports of losses.
Citing a security source, Reuters reported that Iran-backed forces targeted the U.S. base, which is located at the Conoco gas plant in the eastern Deir Ezzor countryside, with six shells, all of which fell in the vicinity of the base. The source added that the U.S.-led coalition responded to the attack with artillery.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based pro-opposition monitoring group, confirmed that retaliatory artillery strikes hit Iran-backed forces in the western countryside of the governorate.
A U.S. official also told Reuters the projectiles did not hit the base and there were no injuries. The unnamed official cited initial reports that can change.
The Conoco base is one of several military installations the U.S. maintains in Syria, mainly in Deir Ezzor, the neighboring northeastern governorate of al-Hasakah as well as in the southeastern area of al-Tanf, under the pretext of fighting ISIS remnants. At least 900 troops are deployed there.
U.S. forces in Syria and neighboring Iraq were attacked with drones and rockets more than 180 times after the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Palestinian Gaza Strip last October, with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), an umbrella group of Iran-backed forces, claiming responsibility for most of the attacks.
The group suspended attacks against U.S. forces last February after the death of three American troops in a drone strike on a base in Jordan, reportedly upon a request from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to facilitate talks on a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. However, several attacks hit U.S. bases recently.
The attack on the Conoco ase came just a few days after U.S. troops were wounded in two separate attacks in Iraq and Syria, which were both blamed on the IRI.
Five U.S. troops were wounded in a rocket attack that targeted Ain al-Asad Air Base in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbar on August 5. Eight more troops were wounded on August 9 when a suicide drone struck a U.S. base near the town of Khrab al-Jir in the northeastern Syrian governorate of al-Hasakah.
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drop them on the thieving scum
the usa won’t withdraw unless their bases are under attack and it’s costing them too much money.
the reason the us left lebanon was because the cost was too high in the 80s.
kill kill kill for peace! don’t stop the attacks on us bases in syria till they tire and go home – until then a number of bodybags ought to be shipped back home so the mothers of the victims of the us war, will have time to grieve. but the us resources ain’t endless and soon we will see a reduction in the cash and weapons going to the me. the jews will be squashef to nothing and once gone there will be little reason for the disunited states to remain.
the only thing uncle sugar understands is a good hard kick in the balls.
i believe it this point it doesn’t even understand that. which means it just needs to be completely annihilated.
are these soldiers that are illegally in syria, real american heros??? 🤔🤔🤔
in afghanistan they were protecting the poppy fields in syria guarding the oil fields fcol
more, more, more. these bases be damned!
an ‘illegally established base belonging to the invading’ united states ‘forces’ in the eastern syrian governorate of deir ezzor ‘was subject to lawful defensive action’ late on august 13.
there, s.f, i’ve once again ‘fixed’ your constantly erroneous m.e. editorial. do try harder next time.
the only good thieving amerikunt is a dead amerikunt.
it’s a noble cause attacking invaders of one’s own country. the pillage of iraq and syria will not stop until the invaders are forced to leave. they won’t do this on their own, so will need help and guidance out of the country. the usadmin might just leave their grunts out to dry, as they did at the libyan embassy and the failed rescue attempt in iran. us propagandists just love their alamo stories. they might just get more than they can handle.
konečne sa začalo oslobodzovania zvyšku sýrie!!! treba zničiť okupantov z darebáckeho štátu usa a to do posledného!!! mor ho!!! svetu mier!!!
i’m sorry to say but injuring a handful of uneducated american soldiers will not stop the satanic empire from expanding.