Iranian-backed militias attack U.S. base in Syria
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Iranian-backed militias launched on Wednesday a swarm of suicide drone attacks against a U.S. base in Syria in retaliation for Baghdad airstrike.
Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese media network al-Mayadeen, reported explosions near a U.S. base in Syria.
Earlier on the same day, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces took responsibility for conducting a unilateral strike in Iraq in response to the attacks on U.S. service members, killing a Kata’ib Hezbollah commander.
On Feb. 2, U.S. forces launched airstrikes on seven facilities of Iranian-backed militias in Syria and Iraq in response to a drone attack on Tower 22 base in northeast Jordan on Jan. 28. The attack resulted in the killing of three U.S. service members and the injury of 40 others.
The base was attacked by a “swarm of suicide drones” according to Egypt-based Bayan-gate news.
The attack has been linked to the retaliatory US airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias and their positions, according to Arab media.
Following Iraq attack, a representative of an Iran-backed militia in Iraq has issued a new warning to the U.S. and Israel.
The attack resulted in the killing of at least two Iranian-backed officials, channels affiliated with Kata’ib Hezbollah reported.
The support officer Abu Baqir al-Saadi and intelligence operative Arkan al-Aliawi were killed in an apparent drone strike in Baghdad, according to the Kata’ib Hezbollah-affiliated channels.
In response, a representative of Kata’ib Hezbollah warned that the group maintained an arsenal capable of striking beyond Iraq, including targets in neighboring Jordan, and as far away as Israel’s Mediterranean coast and its Karesh gas field.
“Our drones and missiles began from Ain Al Asad, have reached Jordan to Haifa, to Karesh, and will reach anywhere we want at any time we want,” the Kata’ib Hezbollah representative told Newsweek.
Other leading Iraqi militias warned of response to the U.S. strikes, according to Newsweek.