Drone attack targets US base in western Syria
Drone shot down by US soldiers at base in al-Tanf area, according to local sources.
Al-Tanf military base, located in Syria near the tri-border area where Syria, Jordan, and Iraq meet, is a strategic outpost used by the United States and its coalition partners. / Photo: AP
A US base in western Syria’s Homs province came under a drone attack, according to local sources on Sunday.
The suicide drone was shot down by US soldiers at the base in al-Tanf area near the border with Jordan late Saturday, the sources said.
No injuries were reported.
The US base came under a similar drone attack last April 7.
Groups backed by Iran occasionally target American bases on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River using missiles and suicide drones.
Earlier this year, an Iraqi resistance group claimed responsibility for a drone attack, which killed three US soldiers and wounded dozens, on a small US military outpost in Jordan known as Tower 22.
The group, called Islamic Resistance, stated that it launched attacks on the “Ash Shaddadi and Rukban bases in Syria, as well as the Zvulon naval facility in occupied Palestine, in response to the massacres committed by the Zionist entity (Israel) against our people in Gaza.”
The group added that it will continue its attacks on the “strongholds of the enemies.”
Three US service members were killed and 28 injured in the attack on Tower 22, a small US base, on the Jordanian-Syrian border, American and Jordanian officials said.
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