US military base in Syria comes under missile attack

The US military base in al Hasakah in northeastern Syria has been attacked by several rockets.

Five rocket attacks had been carried out when a military training session was being held in the base, which is located in al-Shaddadi area in the southern suburb of al Hasakah, Caliber.Az reports citing foreign media.

Earlier this week, the Syrian media had reported several explosions in an illegal US base in the Conoco gas field in east of Syria's Deir al-Zor.

The Syrian government has repeatedly announced that the American military forces are illegally present in the east and northeast of Syria and have been stealing the oil resources of the Arab country. 

Attacks on the US illegitimate military bases in Syria and across the region have intensified since the Israeli regime launched an aggression against Gaza in October 2023.

US forces are fighting Iranian-backed proxies in Syria frequently as they come under militant attacks that analysts say have been aided by the Syrian government. Dozens of those rocket, missile and drone attacks have focused on a strategic American base at a gas field in northeastern Syria near the Iraq border, a de facto territorial dividing point between forces backed by Iran and the US-led coalition to defeat the Islamic State group.

Mission Support Site Conoco has been attacked about 40 times since October 2023, US Central Command said in a statement this month. Many of those attacks have taken place in recent months, after US and Iraqi officials announced the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq and in the aftermath of Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

By Vafa Guliyeva