Attack on Syrian US base kills Kurdish fighters as regional tension simmers
Al Jazeera
The strikes extend a series of tit-for-tat attacks as Israel’s war in Gaza threatens escalation across the region.
A drone strike on a United States base in eastern Syria overnight has killed several fighters from Kurdish-led forces.
The United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Monday that seven fighters were killed and at least 18 others injured.
The attack follows US strikes on targets in Iraq and Syria over the weekend. Iran-aligned armed groups said they had also struck US bases in Syria as well as western and northern Iraq, as a low-level war with Washington simmers.
“This attack in the first response by the Iranian militias to American bases after American airstrikes on militia positions in various areas within areas they control,” the observatory said of Monday’s incident.
The SOHR added that since October 19 “108 attacks” were carried out on bases of the US-led Combined Joint Task Force across Syria. The US-led coalition was set up in 2014 to fight ISIL (ISIS).
Ukrainian source reportedly says the killing ‘was a ‘special operation” by Ukraine’s SBU security service.
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