US soldiers patrol an area with armored personnel carriers in Syria’s Tal Hamis town, about 182 kilometers northeast of the Koniko gas field in Syria, on Jan 24, 2024. (PHOTO / AFP)

BAGHDAD - The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iraqi Shi’ite militia, claimed on Wednesday responsibility for launching rockets and drones against two Iraqi military bases housing US forces as well as a US base in Syria.

The group said in a statement that its fighters fired rockets and drones at a base near the Erbil airport in northern Iraq, the Ayn al-Asad airbase in western Iraq, and a US base in Koniko gas field in Syria. The statement did not provide details about casualties.

Also on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, confirmed the rocket attack on the US base in Koniko gas field in Syria but did not give details about casualties

The group said the attacks were part of a series of retaliatory measures against the US forces amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip.

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An Iraqi army officer in Anbar province told Xinhua that air defense weapons at Ayn al-Asad airbase shot down an explosive-laden drone targeting the base.

There has been no comment from the authorities in the Kurdish-run region of northern Iraq about the attack on the US base near Erbil airport.

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Also on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, confirmed the rocket attack on the US base in Koniko gas field in Syria but did not give details about casualties.

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The attacks came hours after the Iraqi paramilitary Hashd Shaabi forces said in a statement that one of its fighters was killed and two others wounded by US airstrikes after midnight near the Iraqi-Syrian border and in Jurf al-Nasr area south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.