Oct 19 (Reuters) – U.S. forces in Syria introduced down two drones that had been concentrating on them, resulting in some minor accidents, U.S. officials mentioned on Thursday, with Washington on heightened alert for exercise by Iran-backed teams as regional tensions soar throughout the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The officials, talking on situation of anonymity, mentioned the assault happened on Wednesday towards U.S. forces at Al-Tanf base, close to Syria’s borders with Iraq and Jordan.
The officials didn’t say who was chargeable for the assault.
Lebanon’s Iran-aligned Al Mayadeen TV reported on Thursday that two U.S. army bases in Syria have come underneath assault.
Al Mayadeen reported a drone assault on the Al-Tanf base and a missile assault on the Conoco base in the countryside of the northern Deir al-Zor area. It gave no additional data.
U.S. army forces in Iraq had been focused on Wednesday in two separate drone assaults, with one inflicting minor accidents to a small variety of troops though the U.S. army managed to intercept the armed drone.
The United States has 2,500 troops in Iraq, and 900 extra in neighbouring Syria, on a mission to advise and help native forces in combating Islamic State, which in 2014 seized swathes of territory in each nations.
Reporting by Idrees Ali and Tala Ramadan;
Editing by Gareth Jones and Jonathan Oatis
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