Iraqi resistance targets six US bases in Syria, Iraq in solidarity with Gaza

Iraqi resistance forces have targeted six US-occupied military bases in Syria and neighboring Iraq in retaliation for Washington’s support for the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip and in a show of strong solidarity with Palestinians.

Sabereen News, a Telegram news channel associated with Iraqi anti-terror Popular Mobilization Units, reported that the al-Tanf base in southeastern Syria near the border with Jordan and Iraq had come under attack by armed unmanned aerial vehicles.

Separately, an explosive-laden drone had struck the US-run facility in al-Shaddadi town, situated about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Syria’s northeastern city of Hasakah, on Sunday morning.

There were no immediate reports about the extent of damage at the sites, and possible casualties.

Earlier, combat drones had targeted the US-occupied bases in Khirbat ‘Adnan village in Hasakah province, and at the Rukban district in southeastern Syria near the Jordanian border.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of anti-terror fighters, in a statement published on its Telegram channel on Saturday evening, claimed responsibility for the drone strike on the US-run Ain al-Asad Air Base in Iraq’s western province of Anbar.

In a separate statement, the group announced that a salvo of rockets had slammed into a military base housing US occupation forces at Conoco gas field in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.