US base in Syria attacked by Iranian proxy forces after retaliatory airstrikes

Iran proxy forces launched about seven rockets targeting a U. S. base in Northeast Syria on Friday in retaliation to the U.S., a defense official confirms to Fox News.

In first assessments, there are no U. S. casualties and no damage to the base near the Al-Omar oil field.

The rocket attacks came after President Biden ordered a series of retaliatory strikes in response to a suspected Iranian-made drone that killed a U. S. contractor and wounded six other Americans on Thursday. The U.S. strikes reportedly killed eight Iranians.

The Department of Defense said Thursday that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps had crashed a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) into a building near Hasakah in northeast Syria at approximately 1:38 p.m. local time, leaving one U. S. contractor dead. The attack also wounded five U.S. service members and another U.S. contractor.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, two of the American strikes killed at least eight Iranian fighters.

A U. S. airstrike at an arms depot in Harabesh, in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, left six Iranian-backed fighters dead. A second U.S. bombing at a post near the town of Mayadeen killed another two fighters, according to the Observatory, whose reporting relies on local Syrian contacts.

U. S. intelligence assessed the UAV that crashed into a coalition base, which killed the U.S. contractor, was of Iranian origin — so President Biden authorized the military to retaliate, the Pentagon said.... (Read more)

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