Located on the border with Jordan and Iraq, this base is used by the US coalition to combat the Islamic state.
Le Monde with AFP
Several explosions were heard, Wednesday, October 20, from the base of Al-Tanf, near the Syrian borders with Jordan and Iraq, a base used by the US coalition in the United States in the United States. Fight against the Islamic State Organization (EI). According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH), a British-based NGO that has a large network of sources in Syria, a drone attack would be responsible for these explosions.
An American manager confirmed at the France-Presse Agency that an attack had aimed at the base. “We do not know about victims,” said this manager under the anonymity.
Fourteen dead in an attack against a military bus in Damascus
The Al-Tanf base, a garrison in the southern desert of Syria, was put in place in 2016 as part of the fight against the EI. Damascus and his allies have steadily declaring that American troops had no reason to be there. The forces supported by Iran are near this base, located on the Baghdad-Damascus road, of strategic importance.
earlier in the day, a Syrian military bus was the target of a bomb attack in Damascus. At least fourteen soldiers were killed and three other wounded. The most murderous attack in the Syrian capital for four years, has not been claimed. It was followed by bombing of the regional zones of the northwestern country. Thirteen people, mostly civilians, were killed.