Tuesday, 29 Jun 2021 02:45
US forces in Syria came under rocket attack Monday, with no reported casualties, one day after US warplanes conducted airstrikes against what the Pentagon called “facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups” near the border between Iraq and Syria.
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby says the militias were using the facilities to launch unmanned aerial vehicle attacks against US troops in Iraq. Kirby says the US military, under the direction of President Joe Biden, targeted three operational and weapons storage facilities, two in Syria and one in Iraq.
There was no indication that Sunday's attacks were meant as the start of a wider, sustained US air campaign in the border region. But a spokesman for the US military mission based in Baghdad, Col. Wayne Marotto, wrote on Twitter Monday that at 7:44 p.m. local time “U.S. forces in Syria were attacked by multiple rockets.” He said there were no injuries and that attack damage was being assessed.