Rocket attack hits US occupation base in Syria's Conoco oil field
Local resistance factions in Iraq and Syria have recently reignited attacks on US occupation bases and Israeli targets in the region
Rocket salvos hit the US occupation army base at Syria's largest oil field during the early hours of 27 July, according to local sources who reported the sound of explosions in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor in the vicinity of Conoco oil field.
The correspondent for Sputnik in Deir Ezzor confirmed the salvos, reportedly launched by local resistance factions, “achieved direct hits.”
Following the attack, US aircraft launched raids in areas adjacent to their occupation base, targeting positions of the Syrian army's auxiliary forces in the liberated regions northeast of the Al-Omar oil field. Local reports say the US raids also hit the Al-Joura neighborhood in the vicinity of the city of Deir Ezzor.
Saturday's attacks mark the second time in two days that US bases have come under attack by resistance factions, after Ain al-Asad airbase, the largest US military base in Iraq, was targeted by a rocket attack late on Thursday.
According to Al Mayadeen's sources in western Iraq, the air base was targeted by a drone and four rockets.
Attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) in support of Palestine came to a halt earlier this year. However, IRI leaders recently said that the armed coalition was considering renewing their operations.
Last month, the US army sent a large convoy of military reinforcements to their occupation bases in northeast Syria, as locals described that a convoy of 40 military vehicles carrying fuel tankers, medical supplies, and ammunition entered Syria from Iraq via the Al-Walid border crossing.
The US and its Kurdish proxies, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in 2017 conquered large swathes of northeast Syria, including its oil fields, in a mad dash to beat Damascus and its allies for control of the energy-rich region previously taken over by ISIS.
The US and its allies had previously supported ISIS and other Al-Qaeda-linked groups to topple the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. US planners pivoted away from supporting ISIS and toward occupying Syria directly after the Russian intervention in the conflict in late 2015.