Unknown men attack a US base near the Omar oil field in the countryside of Deir Al Zour, Syria, and local sources deny and confirm that they were training operations

Sources in the eastern Syria governorate of Deir Al Zour denied that the American forces in an oil field in eastern Syria were attacked Thursday evening.

A source in the Deir Al Zour Civil Council affiliated with the Syrian opposition said, “What witnessed in the field of the Labor Field, which includes an American military base, a military academy, and the headquarters of the Syria Democratic Forces last night, are training operations and not an attack on the American base located south of the Omar field”.

The source, who requested not to be named, confirmed to the German news agency (dpa) “A military convoy arrived yesterday evening containing about 20 cars carrying equipment and devices for repairing oil installations, supplies and logistical equipment for the American forces in the Omar field”.

And two helicopters were flying in the area that the American convoy that entered the Syrian lands from northern Iraq passed through”.

Syrian media had said today, Friday, that “unknown persons attacked the illegal American base in the Al Omar oil field in the northeastern countryside of Deir Al Zour, coinciding with the arrival of a convoy of trucks carrying military and logistical equipment, and the American occupation forces responding with artillery and illuminated bombs”.

The agency said that the attack coincided with the arrival of a convoy of trucks carrying military and logistical equipment, pointing out that US forces are responding to the attack with artillery and flare bombs.

On the other hand, an official in the “Syrian Democratic Forces” present in the oil field of Omar denied the occurrence of any attack, stressing in statements to “Russia Today” that “there are joint exercises with various types of weapons between the alliance and” SDF “inside the field, and some interpreted the voices resulting from these Joint exercises as an attack”.

And last October, Trump announced the withdrawal of US forces from the area of ​​the “Operation Peace Spring”, which Turkey launched on October 9 against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria, but confirmed Washington’s intention to keep oil fields in this part of Syria under the control of his forces.

The American base in the Omar field, 70 km northeast of Deir Al Zour, is the main American base through which protection is provided to the oil fields in the region, which are the Omar, Tank and Koniko field and some small fields in the eastern countryside of Deir Al Zour.