SHERIF TAREK \/ BLOOMBERG<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A military base in Syria belonging to a U.S.-led coalition came under rocket-fire late on Sunday, the government-affiliated Iraqi Security Media Cell said in a statement.
At least one rocket landed at the base, said Rami Abdulrahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in an interview with Al-Arabiya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if there were any casualties. U.S. Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East, is yet to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The attacks are the first against U.S. bases in the region since early February, when Washington struck Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. That was in response for a drone assault that killed three American soldiers in Jordan and was blamed by the U.S. on an umbrella group called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran backs a number of anti-U.S. and anti-Israel militias in Iraq and Syria and they ramped up attacks on American bases after the Israel-Hamas war began in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iraqi forces are conducting a search operation west of Nineveh, near the Syrian border, to try to capture the perpetrators of the latest attack, according to Iraqi Security Media Cell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq didn\u2019t explicitly claim responsibility for the strike, but in a statement on Telegram the militant group said it decided to resume military operations against American troops after Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani visited the White House and met President Joe Biden this month. The group gave Al-Sudani three months to negotiate the departure of the roughly 2,000 U.S. forces in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat happened a short while ago is the beginning that must be escalated,\u201d according to the group\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The attack followed an explosion on a base in Iraq this weekend controlled by the Popular Mobilization Forces, a coalition of Iran-allied militias, killing one person and injuring eight, the Associated Press reported. The U.S. said it wasn\u2019t behind that incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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