Page 10 - Wayne Marotto News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A facility housing US troops in eastern Syria came under attack late Sunday when rockets were fired from nearby areas, an opposition war monitor, state media and a spokesman for US-backed fighters said, though the US military denied there was any attack. "There is no truth to the reports that US forces in Syria were attacked by rockets today," tweeted coalition spokesman Col Wayne Marotto. Earlier Sunday, Siyamend Ali, a spokesman for the US-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, said two rockets were fired at al-Omar field in Syria's eastern province of Deir el-Zour without infl...

This week, U.S. and Coalition forces in Iraq and Syria, fighting ISIS, were attacked by a militia supported by Iran, despite U.S. airstrikes to push them back. On this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,” Col. Wayne Marotto, spokesman for the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, explains what happened.   change volume

US troops in Syria come under fire in new tit-for-tat cycle with Iran proxies Washington finds itself on precarious ground as it seeks to keep hostile militias in check while pursuing talks with Iran over its nuclear programme. Tuesday 29/06/2021 Members of Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) carry pictures and mock coffins during a symbolic funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, June 29, 2021. (REUTERS) WASHINGTON -US strikes on pro-Iran militia targets in Syria and Iraq over the weekend seem to have unleashed a new cycle of violence indirectly pitting the US against Tehran. Washington finds itself...

29 Jun 2021 The government of Iraq condemned President Joe Biden on Monday for bombing sites within the country, and within Syria, to allegedly combat the threat of Iran-backed militias in the area. Iraqi officials called the move a “flagrant violation of Iraqi sovereignty” and a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense asserted that the country is “studying resorting to all available legal options to prevent the recurrence of such attacks” on its territory. The condemnation follows a similar statement from the regime of Iran-backed dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria, which used almost i...

Biden Airstrikes Prompt Attack on U.S. Troops in Syria 29 Jun 2021 Multiple rockets targeted a U.S. base near an oil field in Syria on Monday evening, a day after U.S. airstrikes hit facilities used by Iran-backed Shiite militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region. The U.S. military said there were “no injuries and damage is being assessed.” Col. Wayne Marotto, a spokesman for the U.S.-led mission against the Islamic State known as Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), said the attack against U.S. forces in Syria began at roughly 7:44 PM local time. Marotto said U.S. forces “acted in se...