Iranian drones target US-led Coalition base in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Drones targeted on Monday the US-led Global Coalition base in the al-Omar oil field in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria, causing material damages.
A military source told North Press that unidentified drones “likely Iranian” targeted the al-Omar oil field.
The Coalition’s aircrafts were on high alert after the attack and intensively flew over the Euphrates River bed in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, the source added.
According to the Monitoring and Documentation Department of North Press, since early 2023, US bases in Syria have been targeted 10 times.
Following the attack, sounds of airstrikes were heard in areas west of the Euphrates without identifying the targeted locations, the source said.
Late on Monday, Kata’ib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Brigades), an Iraqi Shiite paramilitary group which is part of the Popular Mobilization Forces backed by Iran, announced in a statement attacking two US bases in Syria.
The statement published in Arabic read, “The mujahids[fighters] of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq [a Sunni militia group based in Iraq] targeted two bases of the American occupation in Syria, the al-Omar field and Shaddadi with drones, directly hitting the targets.”
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that the U.S. military destroyed two one-way attack drones near U.S. and coalition positions in southwest Syria “before they reached their intended targets. There are no casualties or damage.”
On Monday afternoon, al-Tanf garrison, in southern Syria near the border with Iraq and Jordon was targeted by drones, for which the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed responsibility later.
Two days earlier, a military source within the National Defense Forces (NDF) affiliated with the Syrian government forces, in Deir ez-Zor said after meeting with leaders of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),they set up posts on the western bank of the Euphrates River.
On Oct. 21, the IRGC evacuated several military posts in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, and pushed them, along with other reinforcements coming from Iraqi territory, towards the city of Homs, central Syria.
The IRGC also lowered slogans and banners symbolizing the militias and raised the banners of the government forces instead.
According to the sources, the IRGC prevented leave for its militants and replaced local militants in critical posts with militants of Iraqi and Lebanese nationalities.
The Iranian-backed militias also brought weapons and reinforcements to their headquarters in Deir ez-Zor in the past days.