Washington
\nThe US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Syria said Tuesday they had foiled an attack in the Deir-Ezzour region in the northeast of the country, a day after the second anniversary of the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
\nAfter spotting \u201cseveral launch sites of indirect fire rockets that posed an imminent threat,\u201d coalition forces \u201cconducted strikes to eliminate the threat,\u201d a coalition official said in a statement.
\nThe rockets were aimed at a US base called \u201cGreen Village\u201d in the Euphrates Valley where fighters from the Islamic State group are still active and where US forces continue to cooperate alongside the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
\n\u201cIndirect fire attacks pose a serious threat to innocent civilians because of their lack of discrimination\u201d and the coalition \u201creserves the right to defend itself\u201d added the official.
\nAsked about who might be behind the attack, the third in less than 48 hours in the region after others targeting the Ain Al-Assad air base on Tuesday in western Iraq and Baghdad international airport on Monday, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said he could not identify them.
\n\u201cI m not in a position now to get into specific attribution,\u201d he said. \u201cThat said, we continue to see threats against our forces in Iraq and Syria by militia groups that are backed by Iran.\u201d
\nNone of the attacks resulted in casualties, but came as Iraq marked the second anniversary of the US assassination of Soleimani, the architect of Iranian strategy in the Middle East, and his Iraqi lieutenant, killed by drone fire in Iraq on January 3, 2020.
\nSome 900 US troops remain deployed in northeastern Syria and at the Al-Tanf base in the south, on the borders of Iraq and Jordan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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