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On February 19, at least three blasts rocked the United States-led coalition’s Mission Support Site Conoco in Syria’s northeastern region.
Mission Support Site Conoco is located within a large gas plant in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. It is unknown how many of the some 900 U.S. troops present in Syria are currently deployed at the site.
Some Syrian news sources reported that Mission Support Site Conoco was attacked with several mortar shells, while others said that the explosions were the result of a live-fire exercise by the coalition. A photo that surfaced online shows a large cloud rising from the site.
A day earlier, the coalition’s Green Village base, which is located in al-Omar oil fields in the southeastern Deir Ezzor countryside, was targeted with two rockets. The attack didn’t result in losses, according to a statement by the U.S. Central Command.
The blasts in Conoco came after a series of Israeli strikes that hit targets in the Syrian capital Damascus and in nearby areas early in the morning. One of the targets was a multi-storey building located near key Iranian installations in the highly-secured Kafar Sousah neighborhood. Five people, including four civilians, were killed and 15 others were wounded as a result of the strikes.
It is possible that armed factions affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked the coalition’s site in response to the strikes.
Earlier this week, the coalition shot down an Iranian-manufactured drone over the site. After the incident, an Iranian military advisor working in Syria said that the small drone was testing American air defenses in northeastern Syria.
