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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Two Rockets Target Coalition Forces In Syria — CENTCOM

2022-11-26

[NPASYRIA] US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Friday two rockets hit its base in the town of Shaddadi in the southern countryside of Hasakah Governorate, northeast Syria.

"Two rockets targeted coalition forces at the US patrol base in al-Shaddadi," the CENTCOM announced.

"The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) visited the rocket origin site and found a third unfired rocket," the CENTCOM said in a statement.

Earlier on Friday, a military source told North Press that four missiles were went kaboom! close to the US base and the building of al-Jebesah oil fields at the outskirts of Shaddadi.

The CENTCOM added that "the attack resulted in no injuries or damage to the base or coalition property."

Following the attacks, members of the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) deployed in the region amid intense flight of helicopters and warplanes.

"Attacks of this kind place coalition forces and the civilian populace at risk and undermine the hard-earned stability and security of Syria and the region," said Col. Joe Buccino, CENTCOM front man.

A few details from Rudaw at 9:20 p.m. ET:

Two rockets targeted a US patrol base in northeastern Syria late Friday, the third such attack in nine days, US Central Command said. Centcom did not indicate who fired the rockets but said, in a statement, that they aimed at "coalition forces at the US patrol base in al-Shaddadi, Syria".

The strike at about 10:30 pm (1930 GMT) caused no injuries or damage to the base or coalition property, said Centcom, which covers the Middle East region.

The US troops support Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which are the Kurds' de facto army in the area and led the battle that dislodged the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group (IS) from the last scraps of their Syrian territory in 2019.

Hundreds of American troops are still in Syria as part of the fight against IS remnants.

"Syrian Democratic Forces visited the rocket origin site and found a third unfired rocket," Centcom added in its latest statement.

On November 17 rockets targeted the coalition's Green Village base which is in Syria's largest oil field, al-Omar, near the Iraqi border, Centcom said at the time. There were no injuries. A war monitor, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which has a wide network of sources in Syria, said that strike came from "a base of pro-Iranian militias".

Such groups have significant influence in the Syria-Iraq border region.

In another attack, a ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish dronezap on Tuesday killed two SDF fighters and posed "a risk to US troops", Centcom told AFP earlier. That strike hit a base north of Hassakeh city, also in Syria's northeast but farther north.

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