BAGHDAD (Dispatches) – Two military bases housing U.S. occupation troops in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region and Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah have been struck by drones and a barrage of rockets.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of anti-terror fighters, in a statement published on its Telegram channel claimed responsibility for the attack on the al-Harir Air Base, situated 45 kilometers (27.9 miles) north of the Erbil International Airport in northern Iraq, early on Saturday morning.
It noted that the base was targeted by two drones and the aircraft “directly hit their targets,” linking the assault to Washington’s unconditional support for the Zionist regime’s bloody military campaign against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a 14-billion-dollar aid bill, which includes billions for the Zionist regime’s military, including $4bn for procurement of the Zionist regime’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling systems to counter Palestinian retaliatory rocket attacks.
Various U.S. officials have also supported the occupying regime’s war on Gaza and rejected any ceasefire plan at the UN.
Washington last month vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution that would have called for humanitarian pauses in the conflict between the occupying regime and Hamas and allow humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Strip.
The brutal war that the Tel Aviv regime has been waging against the besieged Palestinian enclave since October 7 has so far claimed the lives of nearly 10,000 people, including 3,700 children and more than 2,300 women.
Also late on Friday night, a volley of rockets rained down on a military base, where occupying American forces and allied militants are stationed, in northeastern Syria.
Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network, citing local sources, reported that explosions were heard inside the U.S. base at the Abu Hajar Airport near the village of Kharab al-Jir, after a number of rockets fell in the area.
There were no immediate reports about possible casualties and the extent of damage caused.
Meanwhile, the head of the Iraqi resistance group Harakat Hezbollah Nujaba says the ongoing battle against U.S. occupation forces will continue until they are fully withdrawn from the Iraqi soil.
Akram al-Kaabi, founder and secretary-general of the movement, stated on Friday night that “This is a life and death battle against a cunning enemy. Either they or we should stay here.”
He added, “The Iraqi resistance is ready to mobilize its ground forces, who have overcome Daesh terrorists and other Takfiri militants in Iraq and neighboring Syria, and join the battle against Zionists.”