Violent explosions rock US occupation base in Syria

A series of violent explosions rocked the military base in the US-occupied Conoco oilfield in north-east Syria on 12 January, following a large rocket attack, Sputnik’s correspondent reported. 

According to the correspondent, the attack “destroyed the base and its surroundings. American air defenses tried to confront the missile attack with their ground and air anti-aircraft weapons, to no avail … the American occupation army’s air force and helicopters, in the meantime, began flying over the skies of the towns surrounding its bases” in the oilfields of Conoco and Al-Omar. 

The attack comes just days after US forces carried out live drills near the Conoco base, aimed at training for potential attacks on the facility. 

The Iraqi resistance has yet to confirm the attack. 

On 11 January, the Iraqi resistance announced an attack on the US base of Al-Shaddadi in north-east Syria.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of Iraqi resistance factions which banded together in October, have been striking US bases with drones and missiles in both Iraq and Syria. The attacks come in solidarity with the resistance in Gaza and in rejection of US support for the Israeli assault on the besieged Gaza Strip. 

They also aim to speed up the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, which the government of Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is trying to facilitate diplomatically. 

However, Washington continues to show no intention of withdrawing from Iraq, and has responded to the attacks on its occupation bases with violent airstrikes on Iraq and its capital. Several have been killed in the US strikes. 

On 11 January, the Pentagon announced that 130 attacks have targeted its bases in Iraq and Syria since October. 

The Iraqi resistance has also carried out strikes on Israeli territory, including the occupied Golan Heights. The latest Iraqi attack on Israel was announced on 12 January, just shortly after the rocket attack on the Conoco base in Syria. 

“The Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, using appropriate weapons, attacked at dawn today, Friday, a Zionist military target in the occupied territories, near the Jordan River Park (north of the Sea of Galilee),” the Islamic Resistance in Iraq coalition said on Friday afternoon via its media channel. 

“The Islamic Resistance confirms that it will continue to destroy enemy strongholds, and we promise you more,” the resistance coalition added.