Officials: Iran behind drone attack on US base in Syria
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Officials: Iran behind drone attack on US base in Syria

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Pro-Iran outlets say drone attack on Americans, Syrian allies at al-Tanf was in response for Israeli strike on Palmyra. United States officials believe Iran was behind a drone attack last week at a military outpost at al-Tanf in southern Syria where American troops are based. Officials said Monday the US believes that Iran provided resources and encouraged the attack, but that the drones were not launched from Iran, The Associated Press news service reported. Kirby called it a “complex, coordinated and deliberate attack” and said the US has seen similar ones before from Shia militia groups that are backed by Iran. The Iran attack was in response to the US drone strike earlier that month near the Baghdad airport that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

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