BAGHDAD/DAMASCUS, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Five rockets were fired Sunday night from Iraq toward a U.S. military base in neighboring Syria, an Iraqi security source told Xinhua.
The attack occurred when unidentified fighters launched the rockets from an Iraqi village near the town of Zummar, northwest of Mosul, the provincial capital of Nineveh, toward northeastern Syrian territories, the unnamed source from the provincial police said.
Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported a failed attempt by Iranian-backed groups to attack a U.S. base at the Kharab al-Jir airport with drones in the northern countryside of Syria's northeastern province of al-Hasakah.
The Britain-based watchdog group said the U.S. ground defenses successfully intercepted and downed the drones before they reached the base.
Following the drone attack, the Iranian-backed fighters launched missiles on the Kharab al-Jir base, said the observatory, adding that U.S. ground defenses engaged in intercepting targets in the sky. There were no casualties reported within the base.
The war monitor noted that the Iranian-backed Islamic resistance groups stationed in Iraq were behind the attacks. ■
