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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US base in Syria hit with 14 rockets

2021-07-08

Via Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin. To see photos click here.
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[GulfTimes] Rocket and drone attacks yesterday targeted bases in Iraq and Syria hosting US forces that are part of an international coalition fighting the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

Fourteen rockets were fired at an air base hosting American troops in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, causing minor injuries to two personnel, the US-led coalition said.

It was the latest in a spate of attacks on US military and diplomatic facilities in Iraq, blamed on gangs within a state-sponsored paramilitary force.

US forces, who have 2,500 troops deployed in Iraq as part of the anti-IS coalition, have been targeted almost 50 times this year in the country.

A bully boy group called Revenge of al-Muhandis Brigade grabbed credit and vowed to defeat the "brutal occupation", according to the US-based SITE intelligence group which monitors bad boy groups.

The bully boy group is named after Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis of Iraq’s Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary alliance, who was killed in a US dronezap early last year along with the revered Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, SITE said.

Late last month, the US carried out deadly air strikes against fighters in both Iraq and Syria.

Yesterday, the Ain al-Assad base was attacked by 14 rockets that "landed on the base & perimeter," coalition front man Wayne Marotto wrote on Twitter.

"Two personnel sustained minor injuries," he said, adding that the attack also damaged local homes and a mosque.

Iraqi security forces said the rocket launcher had been hidden inside a truck carrying bags of flour.

US forces on Monday night shot down an armed drone above their embassy in Baghdad, according to Iraqi security officials.

American defence systems fired rockets into the air in the capital, said AFP news hounds, with Iraqi security sources saying the salvos had taken out an explosive-laden drone.

Just hours earlier, rockets had also been fired towards Ain al-Assad.

Across the border in Syria, where fighters have fought alongside the Damascus regime in the decade-old civil war, Kurdish-led forces also reported attempted attacks near a coalition base.

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said they repelled drone attacks near the base in the Omar oil field in the country’s east, in the second such operation in days.

"Our frontline forces against IS and coalition forces in the area of the Omar oil field dealt with drone attacks," it said, adding that the drones had caused no damage.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor with sources inside Syria, said militias had probably launched the drones from a rural area outside the town of al-Mayadeen southwest of the oil field.

Posted by:badanov

#1 Why do we have a base in Syria? Or Iraq or where ever the fuck else.

Posted by: Chris 2021-07-08 00:15

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