Five fighters from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces were killed in an overnight attack on an American base in eastern Syria, a war monitor said Monday.
“Five members from SDF special forces were killed and around 20 wounded by a drone attack after midnight on Al-Omar oil field,” the largest US-led coalition base in Syria, said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose alliance of pro-Iran fighters opposed to US support for Israel in Gaza, claimed a drone attack on Sunday “against the US occupation base in the Al-Omar oil field”.
The Observatory’s Abdel Rahman said the attack hit an SDF section inside the base, in “the first attack by pro-Iran groups against American bases after the US strikes on Syria and Iraq” late last week.
Roughly 2,500 US troops are deployed in Iraq and about 900 in Syria as part of the coalition.
With AFP
