No one was injured in the attack that fired two rockets at al-Omar’s box in Eastern Syria’s Deir el-Zour province, according to Siyamend Ali, spokesman for the Kurdish-led, U. S. -backed Syrian Democratic Forces. not without transparent delay from where the rockets had been fired.
Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rockets were fired from spaces controlled by Iranian-backed fighters in the Mayadeen region, also in Deir el-Zour.
The U. S. military did not respond to a request for comment.
The rocket attack came six days after U. S. troops in eastern Syria suffered a similar attack. Last week’s attack came a day after U. S. Air Force jets conducted air movements near the Iraq-Syria border in opposition to what the Pentagon said were amenities used through Iran-backed militias for drone maneuvers in Iraq.
Hundreds of U. S. troops are stationed in northeastern Syria, along with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces to fight the Islamic State group.
Thousands of Iranian-backed Middle Eastern militiamen are deployed in other parts of Syria, many of them in spaces along the border with Iraq.
Iran-backed fighters have joined President Bashar Assad’s forces in syria’s 10-year conflict and their presence helped tip the force in Assad’s favor.
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