Six Kurdish fighters killed in drone attack on Syrian base housing US troops

No casualties were reported among US troops

An RAF Typhoon FGR4 aircraft returning to the base, following strikes in Yemen (AS1 Leah Jones/RAF via AP)

A drone attack on a base housing US troops in eastern Syria killed six allied Kurdish fighters late on Sunday, in the first significant attack in Syria or Iraq since the US launched retaliatory strikes over the weekendagainst Iran-backed militias.

The US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said on Monday the attack hit a training ground at al-Omar base in Syria’s eastern province of Deir el-Zour and accused “Syrian regime-backed mercenaries” of carrying out the attack.