Farhad Shami, a spokesperson for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said in a post on X that the drone struck an SDF commando academy at a US base at Al-Omar oilfield, resulting “in the martyrdom of six of our Commando fighters.”

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq – an umbrella group of several Iran-backed Iraqi armed groups – claimed responsibility for a drone attack on Al-Omar field, saying it launched yesterday’s attack.

Washington blames the group for a drone attack on a US outpost in Jordan earlier this month that killed three American forces. The US launched dozens of strikes over the weekend in Iraq and Syria, killing about 40 people.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry responded by recalling the US Chargé d’Affaires in Baghdad, to hand him an official note of protest regarding “the attack that targeted military and civilian sites” in the country.