Several rockets fired towards US base in Syria amid regional tension: Report
The Reuters news agency is reporting that an Iran-backed armed group fired six rockets towards a US airbase in a gas field in Syria’s Deir al-Zor province, but the projectiles did not hit the facility.
The agency cited two US officials and a security source.
The attack comes as the Pentagon reported that eight of its personnel were injured in a drone strike on another base in Syria last week. Seven US personnel were also wounded in a rocket attack on the Ain al-Assad base in Iraq last week.
The uptick in attacks on US troops comes as the world awaits an Iran-led retaliatory attack against Israel over the assassination of Hamas’s Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah’s Shukr in Beirut.
Israel’s military claims strikes on Hezbollah sites
Israel says its air forces hit several Hezbollah military sites, including a rocket launch site, yesterday in southern Lebanon. One of the targeted sites was near the southern village of Kfar Kila, while the other was near the village of at-Tiri, it said.
Last night, we reported that Hezbollah fired three rounds of rockets at Israel, without causing casualties.
Israeli military says no casualties after Hezbollah rocket attacks
The Israeli military confirms that rockets entered from Lebanon but says they fell in open areas and there were no casualties.
It also released aerial footage to show that it directed another air strike against a “military structure” being used by Hezbollah in the area of Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah has claimed five attacks on Israeli positions so far today, including multiple rocket strikes. It said it targeted an Israeli military site in the occupied Kfarchouba hills, a barracks in the occupied Shebaa Farms, and the Shtula settlement among others.
Ten wounded in Israeli air raid in southern Lebanon
Lebanon’s Health Ministry confirms that 10 people have been wounded, with three suffering critical injuries, after an Israeli air raid targeted the town of al-Abbassieh in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district.
The country’s state-run National News Agency reports that the injured have been taken to multiple hospitals in the area.
Israeli drone strikes a motorcycle in a busy street between Tyre and Abbasieh. Several people were injured, no deaths reported. pic.twitter.com/kn6E0GOWD0
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