US troops in Syria, Iraq targeted with renewed rocket and drone attacks
Iran-backed militias are not buying the Pentagon's attempt to rebrand the coalition's defeat-ISIS mission.
Rockets rained down near bases used by US troops in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday, marking the third straight day of such attacks since the two-year anniversary of the US killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on Monday.
No one was reported injured in the barrages, which targeted the US-led coalition’s site near al-Omar oilfield in Syria, Iraq’s Ayn al-Asad airbase in Anbar province and the international airport in Baghdad, which houses Iraqi and coalition troops.
In Syria eight rockets landed inside the perimeter of the Green Village base, the coalition said in a statement today. Coalition troops fired six artillery rounds in response, targeting launch sites just outside the nearby Euphrates River valley town of al-Mayadin.
At least five rockets also landed near Asad Airbase west of Baghdad today. The coalition said none of the projectiles hit the base, with the closest landing more than a mile away.
