News - Middle East: US occupation forces have carried out deadly strikes against Syrian military for the second day in a row, as Washington is scrambling to deter the resistance front’s retaliations against the Israeli regime’s genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip and carnage in southern Lebanon.

Lebanon's al-Mayadeen television network said the American aggression in the early hours of Wednesday hit positions on the outskirts of the city of al-Bukamal in Syria's eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr near the Iraqi border.

The television network said the airstrikes targeted sites of the Syrian army's auxiliary forces in al-Jam'iyat area in the city of al-Bukamal and the al-Bukamal Desert, adding that three people were killed and five others injured.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) claimed in a statement on its X social media account that the strikes hit a militia group’s “weapons storage and logistics headquarters facility.”

The statement claimed that the airstrikes were in response to a rocket attack on US personnel at Patrol Base Shaddadi in northeast Syria, which it claimed had “inflicted no damage to the facility or injuries to US or partner forces.”

On Tuesday, reports said rocket barrages targeted US occupation bases in Syria, with two barrages bombing the Conoco base in Dayr al-Zawr less than an hour apart, and a third barrage bombing the Shaddadi base in Hasakah in northeastern Syria.

CENTCOM said it had carried out attacks in Syria, hitting nine targets at two separate locations in the country.

“US Central Command, alongside our regional partners, will aggressively pursue any threat to US forces, allies, partners, and security in the region,” CENTCOM’s commander Michael Erik Kurilla said in a statement.

There are nearly 2,500 American troops in Iraq and some 900 in Syria as part of what Washington claims to be a fighting force against Daesh.

The US has maintained its presence in the two countries even though the Arab countries and their allies defeated the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in late 2017.

The resistance front in the West Asia region has repeatedly targeted US forces in Iraq and Syria in response to Washington's unbridled support for Israel in its atrocious wars on Gaza and Lebanon.

The US, which provides Israel with more than $3 billion in military aid on an annual basis, has sent it $17.9 billion in weapons support since last October, when the regime began bringing Gaza under a genocidal war, which has killed 43,665 Palestinians, the majority of whom women and children, and injured 103,076 others.

More than 80 percent of the 2.3 million population of the land has been displaced and more than two-thirds of its buildings have been destroyed or damaged.

The Israeli regime’s escalated deadly aggression against Lebanon has also left over 3,000 Lebanese casualties since hostilities began in October 2023.

Source: Press TV