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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The US Central Command on Wednesday announced that two rockets had targeted coalition forces in northeast Syria earlier in the day, without specifying the source of the rockets.
The statement from CENTCOM read that two rockets had targeted coalition forces at Mission Support Site Conoco at around 9am on Wednesday.
“The attack resulted in no injuries or damage to the base or coalition property,” the statement read, adding that the “Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) visited the rocket origin site and found a third unfired rocket.”
The rocket strike coincides with an ongoing Turkish aerial offensive dubbed Operation-Claw Sword targeting Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) - the backbone of the SDF - as well as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Syria and the Kurdistan Region. The operation, according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is a prelude to a looming ground offensive that Ankara intends to launch in the region.
According to the SDF, Turkey’s ongoing attacks in northern Syria have killed 16 civilians so far in December.
Turkey considers the YPG as the Syrian front for the PKK, and frequently targets the Kurdish force through airstrikes and drone attacks southward across its border.
However, Turkish strikes do not usually target Coalition Forces. Iran-backed militias have previously carried out attacks against positions of Coalition Forces in both Syria and Iraq.
There were over 21 rocket and drone attacks against sites housing American troops in Iraq and Syria last year, according to data compiled by Rudaw English. Suck attacks are often attributed to Iran-backed militias and factions, but have never been claimed.
The Wednesday attack comes a day after Iran and Iraq commemorated the death of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who was killed in a US airstrike on January 3, 2020, alongside Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the top commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, also known as Hashd al-Shaabi).
A number of their bodyguards were also killed in the strike which was ordered by former president Donald Trump in response to the constant attacks by IRGC-allied groups on the US embassy in Baghdad and military bases housing coalition and US forces across the country.
Iran has on multiple occasions said that they would take former US President Trump and all those who partook in the attack to international courts.
The statement from CENTCOM read that two rockets had targeted coalition forces at Mission Support Site Conoco at around 9am on Wednesday.
“The attack resulted in no injuries or damage to the base or coalition property,” the statement read, adding that the “Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) visited the rocket origin site and found a third unfired rocket.”
The rocket strike coincides with an ongoing Turkish aerial offensive dubbed Operation-Claw Sword targeting Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) - the backbone of the SDF - as well as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Syria and the Kurdistan Region. The operation, according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is a prelude to a looming ground offensive that Ankara intends to launch in the region.
According to the SDF, Turkey’s ongoing attacks in northern Syria have killed 16 civilians so far in December.
Turkey considers the YPG as the Syrian front for the PKK, and frequently targets the Kurdish force through airstrikes and drone attacks southward across its border.
However, Turkish strikes do not usually target Coalition Forces. Iran-backed militias have previously carried out attacks against positions of Coalition Forces in both Syria and Iraq.
There were over 21 rocket and drone attacks against sites housing American troops in Iraq and Syria last year, according to data compiled by Rudaw English. Suck attacks are often attributed to Iran-backed militias and factions, but have never been claimed.
The Wednesday attack comes a day after Iran and Iraq commemorated the death of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who was killed in a US airstrike on January 3, 2020, alongside Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the top commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, also known as Hashd al-Shaabi).
A number of their bodyguards were also killed in the strike which was ordered by former president Donald Trump in response to the constant attacks by IRGC-allied groups on the US embassy in Baghdad and military bases housing coalition and US forces across the country.
Iran has on multiple occasions said that they would take former US President Trump and all those who partook in the attack to international courts.
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