BEIRUT (AP/Xinhua) – Three suicide drones attacked a U.S. base in eastern Syria on Friday, wounding two militants, the U.S. military said. No Americans were hurt in the attack.
It was not clear who was behind the drone attack. Sleeper cells of the Daesh terrorist group are active in the area.
Two of the drones were shot down and the third struck the compound at al-Tanf base where the borders of Syria, Iraq and Jordan meet, the U.S. military said.
The military said the drone that struck the building wounded two members of the so-called Syrian Free Army, who received medical treatment.
Opposition to U.S. military presence in Syria is at its highest. There are roughly 900 U.S. troops in Syria, including in the north and the farther south and east of the country.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Thursday said the United States is funding smearing campaigns against the Syrian state.
In a statement, the ministry said the United States is spending millions of dollars on suspicious media outlets, aiming at distorting the image of the Syrian state, Xinhua news agency reported.
“Such policies reflect the insistence on continuing to mislead local, regional and international public opinion, and exposes the continuation of the U.S. attack targeting Syria’s sovereignty and interference in its internal affairs,” the ministry said.
It noted that funding media campaigns against the Syrian state aims to cover the crimes of the United States in Syria and its theft of Syrian treasures and natural resources.