Iraqi resistance fighters have hit two military bases housing American occupation forces in Syria in protest at the US presence in Iraq and in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid the Israeli regime’s military onslaught.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of the country’s anti-terror movements, announced the development in a statement on Saturday.
The Iraqi resistance said its fighters had launched drones to hit the targets, which it identified as two American occupation bases in the al-Omar oil field and the Green Village in the eastern Syrian province of Dayr al-Zawr.
The resistance said it had conducted the strikes “in continuation of our path in resisting the American occupation forces in Iraq and the region.”
A US-led coalition rolled into Iraq and Syria in 2014 under the pretext of fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, and is still present in those countries, although they defeated the terror outfit in late 2017.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani recently said his government is planning to set up a committee to arrange the ouster of US forces.
Elsewhere in is statement, the Iraqi resistance said the strikes also took place “in response to the massacre of our people in Gaza by the Zionist entity.”
The relentless Israeli military aggression, which started on October 7, 2023, has so far killed at least 23,843 people, most of them women and children, while 60,317 others have been wounded.
The US has been providing ample military support for Israel’s genocidal war, arming the regime with more than 10,000 tons of military hardware.
Washington has also defended the Israeli onslaught as an instance of “self-defense,” blocking passage of all United Nations Security Council resolutions that called for cessation of the regime’s aggression.
