US says committed to keeping occupation troops in Syria
The White House has said that US President Joe Biden is committed to keeping American occupation troops in Syria in the wake of multiple air strikes in the eastern parts of the Arab country.
US National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby said on Sunday, “We’re going to always act to defend our troops and our facilities.”
Kirby added that Biden is “absolutely” committed to keeping American troops in Syria, where they are occupying the territory against international law, violating the country’s sovereignty.
“Here’s what’s not gonna change … the mission against Daesh is not gonna change,” Kirby said. “We have under 1,000 troops in Syria that are going after that network which is, while greatly diminished, still viable and still critical.”
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said the strikes in Syria against the positions of resistance fighters were carried out at the direction of Biden and targeted facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
However, local sources pointed out that the target was not an Iran-aligned military post as the US military claimed, but rather a rural development center and a grain center in Hrabash neighborhood, near Dayr al-Zawr military airport. No Iranian was killed in the act of aggression.
A military source in Syria told Press TV that the resistance groups reserve their right to respond to the American attack and will take reciprocal action.
On Friday, after the Pentagon carried out multiple airstrikes against Syrian troops, a military base housing US forces in the eastern Province of Dayr al-Zawr came under a rocket attack.
Local sources reported that the rockets landed in the vicinity of the US-controlled Al-Omar Oil Field at around 11:00 a.m. local time (08:00 GMT), causing several explosions.
On Saturday, Iran's Arabic-language al-Alam television news network reported that more than 20 rockets had been fired against two illegal bases belonging to American occupation forces in eastern Syria.
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