Drones strike US base in Syria
Coalition forces "successfully engaged" one of the drones targeting al-Tanf and no one was hurt in the incident.
Al-Tanf, a remote US military outpost in southern Syria, came under attack by “multiple” drones early Monday morning in the latest attack on American forces and the militias they support in the country.
No one was reported hurt and no property damaged, though one of the drones exploded within a compound used by the local US-backed Syrian militia known as Maghawir al-Thawra (Commandos of the Revolution).
Another drone was “successfully engaged” by the US-led coalition, according to a statement released this morning. Other drones involved in the attack “were not successful” in causing any harm, the coalition said.
“Such attacks put the lives of innocent Syrian civilians at risk and undermine the significant efforts by our partner forces to maintain the lasting defeat of ISIS,” US Army Maj. Gen. John Brennan, commander of the US-led international coalition in Iraq and Syria, said in the statement.
