“Preliminary reviews don’t point out there are any accidents, however medical assessments are ongoing. We’re at present conducting a injury evaluation,” the US official stated. File | Picture credit score: AFP
US troops in northeastern Syria have been attacked by a drone, a US official stated Reuters on Friday, though based on preliminary reviews there have been no accidents.
That is the second assault in current days in opposition to US forces within the Center East, because the area braces for a doable new wave of assaults by Iran and its allies.
Iran-backed Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated within the Iranian capital Tehran on July 31, an assault that prompted threats of revenge from Iran in opposition to Israel, which is preventing the Palestinian Islamist group in Gaza. Iran blamed Israel for the killing, however Israel has not claimed accountability.
The assassination and killing of a prime army commander of the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, Fuad Shukr, by Israel in a strike in Beirut, have fueled considerations that the battle in Gaza is escalating right into a wider battle within the Center East.
Iran has stated america is liable for Haniyeh’s assassination due to its assist for Israel.
“Preliminary reviews don’t point out there have been any accidents, however medical assessments are ongoing. We’re at present conducting a injury evaluation,” stated the US official, who requested anonymity to debate the Syria strike.
The assault came about within the Rumalyn touchdown zone, which hosts US troops together with these of the US-led coalition.
5 US servicemen have been wounded on Monday when two Katyusha rockets have been fired on the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq, an assault the Pentagon blamed on Iranian-backed brokers.
America has 900 troops in Syria and a couple of,500 in neighboring Iraq, which it says are on a mission to advise and help native forces attempting to forestall a resurgence of Islamic State, which seized giant swathes of each international locations in 2014 however was later pushed again.