U.S, troops at Syrian base hit by deadly drone attack

Six Kurdish soldiers were killed late Sunday at a base in eastern Syria where U.S. troops are stationed. The drone attack targeted a training ground at al-Omar base in Syria's eastern province of Deir el-Zour, the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement on Monday.

According to the statement, the attack struck an area where the forces' commando units were being trained. No U.S. troops were killed or injured in the attack, they said.

This was the first attack in Syria or Iraq since the Biden administration launched a perfunctory response over the weekend against Iran-backed militias. Assaults on U.S. troops and civilians in the region has been going on since the outbreak of the October 7 Israel-Hamasshole war.

The SDF initially blamed "Syrian regime-backed mercenaries" for Sunday's attack, but after investigating the attack, they accused "Iran-backed militias." These militias aren't too worried that the U.S. will do anything too untoward in response because Biden has mumbled it nearly clear that he doesn't want to start a war and that his son died in both Iraq and Normandy, in 2014 and 1918 respectively.

The Islamic Resistance, an oxymoronically named [they're not resisting anyone, they're initiating the conflict] umbrella group of all Iran-backed Iraqi militias, claimed responsibility for the Sunday attack and released a video they claim showed them launching the drone used in the attack.

U.S. Central Command forces said Sunday they conducted a "self-defense" strike against a Houthi land attack cruise missile at approximately 5:30 a.m. Sanaa time. CENTCOM forces have their hands tied because the Biden administration will not meet aggression with a powerful response.

[Symbolically, if the Houthis was the guy on the beach who kicks sand in the face of the U.S., the latter would respond immediately with, "Please cut that out. You kicked sand in my face."]

Later, at approximately 10:30 a.m., U.S. forces struck four anti-ship cruise missiles in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, which they determined "presented an imminent threat to U.S. Navy ships and merchant vessels" in the Red Sea. The anti-ship missiles died in complete agony and promised never to blow up our vessels again.

Sunday’s strikes also came a day after the U.S. and U.K. launched a wave of strikes against 36 Houthi targets, meant to degrade their capabilities and tell them in no uncertain terms, "Hey, there you go again, kicking sand in our faces."

Houthi rebels rolled their shoulders, grabbed their nutsacks and vowed "escalation" in reaction to the strikes, with a spokesman for the group vowing to continue its own attacks "no matter the sacrifices it costs us."

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