Iraqi resistance forces target a US-occupied military base in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah in retaliation for Washington’s support of the bloody Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip.
Sabereen News, a Telegram news channel associated with Iraqi anti-terror Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), reported that the American military base in al-Shaddadi town, located about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Hasakah, was struck on Monday.
The development came hours after the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of anti-terror fighters, claimed responsibility for the strike on the port of Eilat in the southern flank of the 1948 Israeli-occupied territories.
In a statement released through its Telegram channel, the group noted that the attack was carried out in retaliation for US support of Israel’s bloody war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
On Sunday evening, Iraqi resistance fighters launched an attack against a US military base near Erbil International Airport in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
The strikes on the US-run military installation in Iraq and Syria come amid growing anti-US sentiments in the region over Washington’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed at least 21,822 people, most of them women and children. More than 56,451 individuals have been wounded as well.
The Israeli regime launched the war after Gaza’s resistance groups conducted Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, their biggest operation against the occupying entity in years.
Since the onset of the war on October 7, the United States has backed Israel’s ferocious attacks on Palestinian territory as a means of “self-defense.”
Washington has also vetoed United Nations Security Council resolutions that called for a ceasefire in Gaza.
