At least 10 rockets focused the Green Village in northeast Syria, however no accidents or injury on the facility have been recorded, the Central Command stated in a press release.
(Reuters Archive)
US forces stationed at a army facility in northeast Syria got here underneath rocket assault for the second straight day on Friday as tensions proceed to escalate.
In all, 10 rockets focused the Green Village in northeast Syria, however no accidents or injury on the facility have been recorded, the Central Command stated in a press release.
But one of many rockets veered off target and missed the Green Village by 5 kilometers (3 miles), putting a home and “causing significant damage” and injuring two girls and two kids, it added.
The Green Village is positioned on the al Omar fuel subject, and about 900 US troops are stationed there.
“This kind of indiscriminate rocket attack places not only our forces and coalition forces at risk, but also jeopardizes the local civilian population as well as the security and stability of Syria and the entire region,” stated Central Command spokesperson Col. Joe Buccino.
“As President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing,” he added, referring to the US president.
The US carried out retaliatory airstrikes on Thursday towards Iran-backed teams in japanese Syria in response to a drone assault that killed a US contractor and injured 5 service members.
According to stories, a number of Iran-backed militias have been killed within the US air strikes, however the variety of fatalities couldn’t be instantly verified.
The Pentagon stated in a press release {that a} suicide drone “struck a maintenance facility on a Coalition base near Hasakah in northeast Syria” on Thursday afternoon, which resulted within the damage of one other US contractor.
According to the assertion, “the intelligence community assesses the UAV to be of Iranian origin.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he authorized US Central Command forces to conduct precision airstrikes against facilities used by militia groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) at the direction of President Joe Biden.
“The airstrikes have been carried out in response to right this moment’s assault in addition to a collection of latest assaults towards Coalition forces in Syria by teams affiliated with the IRGC,” stated Austin.
Iran-backed militias have a heavy presence throughout Syria, particularly across the border with Iraq, and south and west of the Euphrates in Deir Ezzor province, the place the most recent US strikes befell.
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The Pentagon stated two of the service members injured on Thursday have been handled onsite, whereas the three different troops and one US contractor have been medically evacuated to Iraq.
“As President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing,” Austin stated.
Last August, Biden ordered comparable retaliatory strikes within the oil-rich Syrian province of Deir Ezzor after a number of drones focused a coalition outpost, with out inflicting any casualties.
That assault got here the identical day that Iranian state media introduced a Revolutionary Guard common had been killed days earlier whereas “on a mission in Syria as a military adviser.”
The IRGC is the ideological arm of the Iranian army and is blacklisted by the United States.
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