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Massive Blasts Heard Inside US Base in Northeast Syria

Large and violent explosions were heard coming out of the US’ Al-Shaddadi base in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah on 11 December, following a suspected attack by the Iraqi resistance.

“Successive and huge explosions were heard a short while ago, in the vicinity of the base of the Al-Jabsa Oil Fields Directorate in the city of Al-Shaddadi (50 km south of Al-Hasakah Governorate), resulting from being targeted by at least four missiles,” a Sputnik correspondent said.

US forces sounded sirens and deployed troops around the area as drones and helicopters flew overhead. No casualties have been reported.

The Al-Jabsa base in Al-Shaddadi is considered one of the largest US bases in northeastern Syria, and also houses a number of French and British troops, according to Sputnik.

Local sources also told the Al-Mayadeen news outlet that large explosions were heard from inside the base.

The sources said that the sounds were likely the result of “a drone belonging to the Iraqi Islamic resistance factions, which fired at the base with several missiles.”

Another source told Al-Mayadeen that a number of missiles hit the base, with one of them landing on headquarters belonging to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Washington’s Kurdish proxy in Syria.

The second source said that a US drone also fell near the Al-Shaddadi-Tal Jair road, and that US troops imposed a security cordon in the area.

The Iraqi resistance has not yet confirmed the attack.

On 8 December, four rockets landed on the US embassy in Baghdad’s Green Zone area. Eleven other attacks targeted US bases in Iraq and Syria that day.

The attacks were claimed by the Islamic Resistance of Iraq coalition of factions, which was formed in October to confront US troops in support of Palestine.

“In response to the crimes committed by the enemy against our people in Gaza, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq yesterday targeted the American occupation bases in Iraq and Syria with eleven operations, striking them with dozens of missiles and drones,” the coalition said in a statement on 9 December.

These attacks against US bases in Iraq and Syria have been ongoing since the Gaza-Israel war began in October and were paused only briefly during the seven-day truce before resuming with intensity.

US warplanes have carried out several rounds of airstrikes in Iraq recently in response to the continuous attacks. Five Iraqi resistance fighters were killed in a US strike in Kirkuk on 3 December.

However, the Iraqi resistance has vowed to continue operations against US forces in Iraq and Syria.

Abu Ali al-Askari, a senior official in Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah faction, vowed in a statement on 9 December that the Iraqi resistance would continue to confront US forces in Iraq until “the last soldier” is expelled from the country.

Askari also said that the 8 December attacks against US bases “mark the start of a new phase of confrontations.”

Source: The Cradle

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