BEIRUT (AP) — 3 suicide drones attacked a U.S. base in jap Syria on Friday, wounding two Syrian opposition combatants, the U.S. army stated. No American citizens had been harm within the assault.

It used to be now not transparent who used to be at the back of the drone assault, however Iran-backed combatants within the area have performed such operations previously. Sleeper cells of the Islamic State crew also are energetic within the house.

Two of the drones had been shot down and the 3rd struck the compound at al-Tanf base the place the borders of Syria, Iraq and Jordan meet, the U.S. army stated.

The army stated the drone that struck the construction wounded two individuals of the Syrian Loose Military, who won scientific remedy.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition warfare track, stated the assault used to be most likely performed through Iran-backed combatants who’re deployed in several portions of war-torn Syria.

“Assaults of this type are unacceptable — they position our troops and our companions in peril and jeopardize the struggle towards ISIS,” U.S. army spokesman Joe Buccino stated, the usage of an acronym for the Islamic State crew.

There are kind of 900 U.S. troops in Syria, together with within the north and the farther south and east of the rustic.