Multiple Attacks Hit U.S. Bases in Syria, Iraq

Date: 05 December 2021 - 21:48

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DAMASCUS (Dispatches) -- Syrian state television reported on Sunday that multiple explosions had been heard inside the U.S. base in the Al-Tanf region in eastern Homs, near the Iraqi border.
Sabereen News, a Telegram news channel associated with Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units better known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, confirmed the report.
Last month, Al-Tanf was hit by drones and rockets, in an attack that Pentagon spokesman John Kirby described as “complex, coordinated and deliberate”.
U.S. officials said they believe the attack involved as many as five drones laden with explosive charges, which hit both the U.S. side of the base and the side where U.S.-backed militants reside.
The U.S. military trains anti-Damascus militants at the Al-Tanf base. U.S. occupation forces came under separate attacks in Syria and neighboring Iraq.
Russia’s RT Arabic television said three missiles targeted a U.S. military base in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr on Saturday evening.
According to the report, several military helicopters flew over the area after the base in a gas field illegally operated by ConocoPhillips was targeted.
The base, where Kurdish militants with the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are also stationed, last came under mortar and rocket attacks in July.
The U.S. military has stationed forces and equipment in eastern and northeastern Syria with the purported aim of preventing oilfields in the area from falling into Daesh hands.
Damascus, however, says the unlawful deployment is meant to plunder the country’s resources.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump admitted on several occasions that American forces were in Syria for its oil.
Elsewhere in neighboring Iraq, a roadside bomb attack targeted a U.S. military convoy carrying logistical equipment in the southern Al-Qadisiyyah province.
A security source told Iraq’s Shafaq news agency that the explosion took place near the provincial capital city of al-Diwaniyah on Sunday.
Anti-U.S. sentiment has been growing in Iraq since last year’s

assassination of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Units, along with the region’s legendary anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad.
They were targeted along with their companions on January 3, 2020, in a terrorist drone strike authorized by former U.S. president Donald Trump near Baghdad airport.
Two days after the attack, Iraqi lawmakers approved a bill that requires the government to end the presence of all foreign military forces led by the U.S.