Missile event in Syrian Arab Republic on Wed 27th November 2024

 A missile strike has been delivered on the US Green Village military base near the al-Omar oil field in Syria’s eastern Dei ez-Zor governorate, the Al Mayadeen television channel reported.

According to the TV channel, at least three missiles were fired. No further details were provided.

The Sham FM radio station said earlier that "powerful explosions" had been heard from the vicinity of the al-Omar oil field.

Larger parts of the Syrian governorates of al-Hassakah, Deir ez-Zor, and Raqqa located in the country’s eastern and northeastern parts, are now controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led coalition backed by the United States. Since 2015, the US command has established nine military bases in this area. In late 2019, Donald Trump, who was the US president at that time, approved a plan, under which several hundreds of US troops were to stay in Syria to control oilfields in the northeast and east of Syria. Damascus condemns the United States’ military presence in its territory as illegal occupation.

Following the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Gaza Strip, Shiite units have intensified missile and drone attacks on US military bases in Iraq and Syria, demanding that the United States stop offering military assistance to Israel.