U.S. Base in Syria Comes Under Missile Attack

Date: 14 February 2024 - 21:36

News ID: ۱۲۴۶۴۰

DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – An
illegal base of the United States in Syria was targeted in the east of the country with missiles on Wednesday.
No groups or individuals have yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
Resistance groups based in Iraq have repeatedly hit U.S. bases on Iraqi and Syrian territories with missiles and drones over the past weeks in retaliation for the Zionist regime’s crimes against Palestinians in Gaza.
The groups are also outraged at the U.S. military presence in the region, which they see as a source of instability, as well as Washington’s support for the Israeli regime in its ongoing war on Gaza.
A day earlier, the Pentagon announced that the number of U.S. casualties in Iraq, Syria and Jordan since Oct. 18 totals around 186.
“Of those 186 casualties, over 130 are currently assessed as having traumatic brain injury,” Department of Defense Spokesman Pete Nguyen said in a statement.
Since the Israeli army launched intensified attacks on the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7 last year, U.S. military bases in Syria and Iraq have been targeted with drones and rockets, particularly al-Tanf Garrison in Syria as well as bases in the city of al-Malikiyah near the Iraqi border, the city of al-Shaddadi in al-Hasakah Governorate and Dayr al-Zawr province.
The Zionist regime has since pounded the Gaza Strip, killing at least 28,340 people and injuring 67,984 others.
The Israeli onslaught has left 85% of Gaza’s population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure was damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
The United States, Israel’s biggest ally, has provided the regime with arms and ammunitions since the initiation of the Gaza war.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed billions of dollars of military assistance package for Israel.
Washington has also vetoed United Nations Security Council resolutions that called on the occupying regime to cease its aggression.