five Kurdish fighters killed in drone attack on US base

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The attack comes after retaliatory strikes by the United States against elite Iranian forces and pro-Iranian armed groups in Syria and Iraq.

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Syrian Democratic Forces fighters during a military parade in the US-protected Al-Omar oil field in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor on March 23, 2021. (DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP)

Five fighters from the Kurdish-led forces were killed in a drone attack that targeted a US base in eastern Syria where they are stationed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Monday (February 5) ( OSDH). The attack, claimed by the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq”, a nebula of pro-Iranian groups, comes after retaliatory strikes carried out by the United States on the night of Friday to Saturday against elite Iranian forces and pro-Iranian armed groups in Syria and Iraq, which left at least 45 dead.

According to the OSDH, based in the United Kingdom but which has a vast network of sources in Syria, the attack targeted a section where FDS special forces are stationed on “the American base of Al-Omar in the Deir Ezzor region”, located on a major oil field. The director of the OSDH, Rami Abdel Rahman, declared to AFP that it was the “first attack by pro-Iranian groups against American bases since the strikes” carried out by Washington over the weekend.

The United States carried out strikes against 85 targets on seven different sites (four in Syria and three in Iraq), targeting the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s ideological army, and pro-Iranian armed groups, according to Washington .


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