Middle East stay weblog: ++ US army base in Syria attacked from Iraq ++ | EUROtoday

According to Iraqi sources, a number of rockets had been fired from northern Iraq at a US army base in Syria. The Lebanese Hezbollah says it shot down an Israeli drone. The developments within the stay weblog.

The Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia in Iraq says it’s decided to renew assaults on US forces within the nation. A go to by the Iraqi prime minister to Washington introduced little progress in talks a few withdrawal of US troops, says Kataib Hezbollah.

“What happened recently is just the beginning,” the group explains, apparently referring to a a number of missile assault from northern Iraq on a US army base in Syria.

According to Iraqi sources, at the very least 5 rockets had been fired from the Iraqi metropolis of Zumar at a US army base in northeastern Syria. Iraqi safety forces say a rocket launcher was parked behind a supply truck within the border city with Syria.

A search was launched for the perpetrators, who fled in one other automobile, stated a safety officer stationed within the city of Zumar. The assault got here a day after an explosion at a army base in Iraq that killed a member of the Iraqi safety forces on Saturday.

It is the primary main assault after a number of weeks of calm. In the winter, towards the background of the struggle between Israel and the novel Islamic Hamas, pro-Iranian armed teams carried out dozens of air strikes with drones and rockets towards US troopers stationed within the Middle East. There are round 2,500 US troopers stationed in Iraq and round 900 in Syria.

The Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah says it shot down an Israeli drone that was on a fight mission in Lebanon. The drone that crashed over southern Lebanon “carried out its attacks on our steadfast people,” the militia stated in a press release.