Drone attack hits US-led coalition base in southern Syria | ISIL/ISIS News [Video]

A drone attack hit a US-led coalition base in southern Syria, the US military’s Central Command has said.

“Three one-way attack drones attacked the al-Tanf Garrison in Syria,” a CENTCOM statement said on Friday.

Two of the drones were shot down by the coalition, but the third hit the compound, wounding two allied Syrian opposition fighters who received treatment, the statement added.

“Attacks of this kind are unacceptable,” CENTCOM spokesperson Joe Buccino said, without specifying who carried it out.

“They place our troops and our partners at risk and jeopardise the fight against ISIL.”

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

Iran-backed forces are deployed in close proximity to al-Tanf, a desert garrison on the strategically important Baghdad-Damascus highway, near the border with Iraq and Jordan.

Iran is a key ally of the Syrian government and the coalition has disrupted similar attacks on al-Tanf in the past.

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