DAMASCUS, Dec 7 (NNN-SANA) – An unknown group attacked a U.S. base in an oil field, in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour overnight, pushing the U.S. forces to respond.
The attackers targeted the base, in the al-Omar oil field, in the northeastern countryside of Deir al-Zour, as truckloads of military gears were reaching the base.
The U.S. forces responded with artillery shelling and flare bombs, according to the report.
It was not mentioned who could be behind the attack, but slammed the U.S. presence there as “illegitimate.”
Meanwhile, the Britain-based war monitor, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said, 25 truckloads of military gears entered the al-Omar oil field overnight, in tandem with a military training of the U.S. forces and their allies of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, in the vicinity of the oil field.
The training also included dropping of flare bombs in the area, said the observatory, without mentioning any attack on the base.
