According to local and security sources in Syria, the US military base in Al-Omar oil field in the eastern parts of the Arab country came under a surprising missile attack in the early hours of this this Friday.
Local and security sources in Syria reported that in the early hours of this Friday, nearly 10 missiles were launched towards the US military base in Al-Omar oil field in eastern Syria, potentially causing considerable casualties and damages. The missile attack was most probably a response to the US’ recent attack on the positions of the Resistance Forces in Syria that was carried out a day earlier. What is remarkable about Friday attack on US military base in Syria is that no US affiliated media has yet reported the news.
About US airstrikes in Syria, the Pentagon had said that two facilities in Syria allegedly used by the IRGC were the targets of US attacks. Without revealing how it carried out the kinetic operation, the Pentagon said that “we used precision munitions to hit two sites in Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated militant proxy groups. These precision self-defense strikes are a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against US personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups,” the US defense secretary Lloyd Austin said.
But this is not the first attack on a US base in the region since the war between Hamas and Israel started on October 7. Last week, the Islamic Resistance Group of Iraq issued a statement and claimed responsibility for the attack on the US military base in the Koniko gas field, Syria’s largest gas field situated 13 kilometers east of Deir ez-Zur. Syrian media sources reported that following this attack, American soldiers stationed in this base were on alert and American fighters and helicopters flew over the area.
The Islamic resistance of Iraq also took responsibility for attacking the American base “Al-Tanf” located in the border triangle of Syria, Iraq and Jordan using 3 drones. Warning about the increase of such attacks on the American bases in the region, the group also noted that announced the targeting of 2 American bases “Ain al-Asad” in the Anbar province of Iraq and “Al-Harir” located in the north of this country, and added that these bases were targeted by drones.
Washington in a state of panic
After continuous attacks against American bases in the region by resistance forces, Austin issued a statement, saying that “the United States does not seek conflict and has no intention or desire to engage in further hostilities, but these Iran-backed attacks against U.S. forces are unacceptable and must stop,”
The airstrikes, carried out by two Air Force F-16s and an F-15E, were designed to send a strong message to Iran, but not so strong that they escalated hostilities, U.S. officials said. The targets were weapons and ammunition caches that supplied Iranian-backed militias involved in recent attacks against Americans, Pentagon officials said. Describing the US Friday attacks only as a way of self-defense, the US Defense Secretary also noted that “it was our way of saying, ‘Stop,’ but nothing more than that.”
Since Hamas’s surprise attack against Israel on October 7, Israel has been conducting constant airstrikes against Palestinians in Gaza, killing more than 7,000 Palestinians. But despite the heavy fire on Gaza by Israeli forces, US and other Western countries have been fully supporting Israel and have been even providing it with more weapons. And now, after experiencing more than 10 surprise attacks by the resistance forces in Iraq and Syria against US bases in the region, it seems Washington has tasted a little bit of its own medicine.
