USStrikes Back After Rocket Attack in Syria Voice of America 29 Jun 2021, 10:35 GMT+10 PENTAGON - U.S. troops in Syria have returned fire after a rocket attack targeted American forces there Monday, according to a military spokesman. "U.S. Forces in Syria, while under multiple rocket attack, acted in self-defense and conducted counter-battery artillery fire at rocket launching positions," U.S. Colonel Wayne Marotto, the spokesman for the international military intervention against Islamic State, wrote on Twitter. The rockets targeted a military base in Deir ez-Zour known as Green Village, multiple sources with knowledge of the attack confirmed to VOA. Marotto told VOA the U.S. responded to the rockets with 155 mm artillery rounds.