Drone hits Coalition base, kills 6 SDF fighters in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Monday that six of their fighters were killed in a drone attack on a U.S.-led Global Coalition base in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.
The SDF’s Media Center said in a statement that early on Monday a one-way UAV attacked an SDF training academy within the al-Omar Field, killing six of their fighters.
According to the statement the suicide drone came from the direction of areas west of the Euphrates River, which are held by the Syrian government forces and Iranian-backed militias.
A military source working with the Coalition told North Press that an Iranian drone targeted the base, adding it resulted in the injury of 14 SDF fighters, some of them in a critical condition.
The source in the Coalition did not comment whether the attack caused any casualties among Coalition troops.
Earlier on Monday, MEHR News Agency reported that the Islamic Resistance in Iraq had conducted an attack on the base.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of Iranian-backed militias, has been regularly attacking U.S. and Coalition bases in Syria and Iraq since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct.7, 2023.
The Monday attack came after U.S. forces conducted retaliatory airstrikes on 85 targets linked to Iranian-backed militias in Syria and Iraq.
The strikes come in response to a drone attack that targeted the U.S. Tower 22 base in Jordan near the Syrian border late in January and killed three American service members and injured over 40 others.