(Baghdad) Drone and rocket attacks have again targeted American troops and the international anti-jihadist coalition in Iraq and Syria in the last 48 hours, an American military official reported Thursday, after deadly American strikes against pro-jihadist fighters. Iran.
Before dawn on Wednesday, the American Middle East Military Command announced that it had carried out “precision strikes” on two sites in Iraq, in retaliation for recurring attacks by pro-Iran groups against American soldiers and coalition forces. in Iraq and Syria.
These American bombings targeted positions of Hachd al-Chaabi, a coalition of former paramilitaries now integrated into the regular Iraqi forces. The strikes killed eight fighters, according to the toll revealed by the Hezbollah Brigades, an influential Hachd faction.
On Wednesday and again on Thursday morning, drones attacked “US and coalition forces” stationed at a military base at Erbil international airport, in autonomous Kurdistan in northern Iraq, the AFP the American military official.
In both cases, these attacks caused “no casualties and no damage to infrastructure,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
On Thursday, several drones were launched against American and coalition troops at the Iraqi base of Ain al-Assad, in the west of the country, without causing any casualties or damage, according to the American military official.
Also on Thursday, “several rockets” targeted a base in neighboring eastern Syria housing American soldiers and the international coalition engaged against the Islamic State (IS) group, still without causing any casualties or damage, according to the same source.
Some of these attacks were claimed by the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq”, a nebula close to the pro-Iran armed groups who welcome its action on their Telegram application channels.
In total, Washington has recorded 72 attacks carried out since October 17, ten days after the start of the war, according to an updated report provided by the American military official.
These rocket attacks or drone strikes left around sixty American troops injured, according to the Pentagon.
In retaliation, Washington also bombed sites linked to Iran three times in Syria.