Iraqi resistance strikes multiple US occupation bases in Syria

"The Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed responsibility for attacks on several US military bases in Syria on 23 October, the second series of attacks on US military bases in a week, Al-Mayadeen reported.

The Islamic Resistance stated that offensives were carried out with drones that caused severe damage after they directly hit their targets at bases in Al-Tanf and Al-Rukban near the Syria-Iraq-Jordan border.

The sources said that in Al-Tanf, the drones "managed to target the base without information about the extent of the losses," adding that there was a subsequent mobilization from the US military forces inside the base.

The US military established the Al-Tanf base in 2016, under the pretext of fighting ISIS.

However, Russian and Syrian officials say the US has supported ISIS from the base, which is located on the strategic M2 Baghdad–Damascus Highway. The US seeks to use its forces stationed at Al-Tanf to block Iran from moving weapons and fighters overland between Syria and Iraq. The US has also trained separatist Druze forces at Al-Tanf.

The Resistance also announced that its fighters conducted a drone strike on the US military's Al-Malikiyah base in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah Governorate.

The Al-Malikiyah base was established by the US in 2021 near the Turkiye-Syria-Iraq border to facilitate the theft of Syrian oil, Syrian state media SANA said.

Meanwhile, the US base at the Conoco oil fields in Deir Ezzor's countryside was struck with two missiles, sources speaking with Al-Mayadeen said, also noting that no information regarding damage has been revealed so far.

On 19 October, three drones were able to fly above the Al-Tanf base and launch several successful airstrikes.

Sources within the US-led coalition that spoke with Iraq's Shafaq News on Wednesday claimed that the occupation forces “successfully intercepted and downed two of the drones, but the third managed to target the base.”

The US base at the Conoco oil field was also hit by multiple rockets.

Hours before the 19 October airstrikes on US troops, the Israeli air force attacked the Syrian army in the southwestern Quneitra governorate, causing material damage. Explosions were also reported in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

US troops stationed in Iraq's Ain al-Asad airbase were also targeted by airstrikes on Wednesday, which were claimed by the Kataib Hezbollah resistance faction. Although the Pentagon initially claimed its forces repelled the attack, the official story changed to include reports of wounded soldiers as the hours went on.

“The resistance in Iraq has entered the battle of ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ and directed its strikes at US bases,” the military spokesman for Kataib Hezbollah declared on Thursday.

Since the start of the historic Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in the Gaza envelope, factions within the Resistance Axis in West Asia have warned they are ready to join the battle against Israel in support of the Palestinian cause and that US occupation troops and bases would become “legitimate military targets” if Washington also decides to enter the fray.

As tensions escalate, the Pentagon has deployed multiple warships and thousands of troops to the Israeli coast. The UK, Germany, and the Netherlands have mobilized troops to support Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians."