BEIRUT, November 24. /TASS/. Fighters of the Shiite movement Islamic Front for Iraqi Resistance attacked a US military base near the El Omar oil field in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, the movement said on Telegram.

According to the report, the attack involved a drone and was carried out "in response to [Israel’s] crimes in the Gaza Strip."

No other details about the attack or its consequences have been published so far.

On Thursday afternoon, Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen channel reported that a missile attack had been carried out on another US military base, located near the Conoco oil field in the Deir ez-Zor governorate. The Islamic Front for Iraqi Resistance claimed responsibility for that attack as well.