DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – A rocket attack has targeted the U.S. military base in the al-Omar oil field in Dayr al-Zawr countryside.
“A missile attack targeted on Saturday Al-Omar oil field, which the U.S. forces take as an illegal base for them in the eastern countryside of Dayr al-Zawr, no information whether there were any casualties among the occupation forces,” Local sources told Syria’s official SANA news agency’s reporter.
Meanwhile, according to the Al Hadath TV channel broadcasting from Dubai, one of the missiles hit the helipad, next to the fuel tank, and as a result, a fire broke out.
The Al Hadath TV channel also reported that a military facility near the al-Omar main oil field was put on alert. Troops at the neighboring U.S. base near the al-Tabiya gas field were also put on high alert.
A larger part of Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr, Raqqa and al-Hasakah governorates is currently controlled by the U.S.-backed Kurdish so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Since 2015, the U.S. command has set up nine military bases in this area.
Damascus brands the United States’ military presence on Syria’s territory as an occupation.