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| Iraqi groups said they fired at a US base in Syria using a UAV |
| 2024-02-04 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Iraqi Islamic Resistance groups used a drone to attack the US military base at Harrab al-Jair in northeastern Syria, the groups said in a statement published on February 3 on their Telegram channel. “In resistance to the American occupation forces in Iraq and the region, as well as in response to the massacre carried out by the Zionist entity (Israel - editor’s note) against our people in the Gaza Strip, fighters of the Islamic Resistance (...) attacked the occupiers’ Harrab base al-Jair" in Syria using a drone. "Islamic Resistance confirms that it continues to destroy enemy strongholds," the statement said. Earlier, representatives of the groups announced a drone strike on a US base in Iraqi Kurdistan after US military strikes in western Iraq. In addition, the Lebanese TV channel Al Mayadeen reported that the US base at the Koniko gas field in eastern Syria came under rocket fire on February 3. A fire started at the base. As Regnum reported earlier, on the night of February 3, the US Air Force carried out airstrikes on more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria, using at least 125 precision-guided munitions. The US targets, according to Washington, were facilities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. At least 16 people were killed as a result of the strikes in Iraq, and up to 30 people in Syria. The Iraqi government called the strikes an act of naked aggression, and they were also condemned by the Syrian Foreign Ministry and the Iranian Foreign Ministry. The Iraqi parliament called on the country's government to speed up the withdrawal of the US contingent and its allies from Iraq. The US Charge d'Affaires was summoned to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry and was given a note of protest. Mourning has been declared in Iraq. US airstrikes are aimed at inciting conflict, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. The strikes demonstrate the aggressive nature of US policy in the Middle East, Russia strongly condemns the act of aggression against sovereign states and seeks urgent consideration of the situation by the UN Security Council, she added. At the end of January 2024, a drone attacked a US military base in northeastern Jordan. The Pentagon confirmed the death of three American servicemen, and dozens of people were injured. US President Joseph Biden and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said that the United States will not tolerate attacks on its military personnel and will take all necessary measures to protect them. US strikes on the territory of Iraq and Syria will continue, so further escalation of the situation in the region is inevitable, while the US will avoid a direct clash with Iran, political scientist, historian, expert on the problems of the Middle East and Central Asia Semyon Bagdasarov noted in an interview with Regnum news agency. |
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