YEMEN Press Agency

Missile attacks hit US occupation base in northeastern Syria

HASAKA, May 17 (YPA) – A missile attack on Monday evening targeted the Ash Shaddadi military base, which houses US occupation forces, in Hasaka countryside, northeastern Syria, the state-run SANA news agency reported citing local sources .

According to the Local sources, ‏several projectiles landed in the vicinity of the US-controlled al-Jabsa oil field in al-Shaddadi town late on Monday.

One of the rockets, they added, struck the al-Jabsa installations, where the military aircraft of the US occupation forces are stationed.

Another one hit the headquarters of the al-Jabsa Fields Directorate, which American occupation forces use to manufacture unmanned aerial vehicles for Kurdish militants from the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces [SDF].

The sources said that ambulance sirens could be heard around the base after the incident.

US military drones flew over the field after it came under the attack, and groups of SDF militants were also immediately dispatched to the town.

E.M