Drone or rocket attacks against US troops and the international anti-jihadist coalition have continued over the past 48 hours in Iraq and Syria, a US military official said Thursday, following deadly US airstrikes against militants close to Iran.

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the joint headquarters of the US armed forces announced that it had launched “precision strikes” against two facilities in Iraq, in retaliation for dozens of attacks by pro-Iranian organizations against US and coalition troops in Iraqi and Syrian territory.

The bombings targeted buildings of the Hashd al-Shaabi (“Popular Mobilization Units”), an alliance of former paramilitaries now integrated into the Iraqi regular army. The strikes killed eight fighters, according to a tally released by Kataeb Hezbollah (“Party of God Brigades”), a powerful Hashd component.

Last Wednesday and then Thursday morning, drones attacked “US and coalition forces” at a base at Arbil International Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, an autonomous region in northern Iraq, a US official told AFP.

In both cases, the attacks caused “no casualties and no damage to infrastructure,” added the same source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Yesterday Thursday, drones also targeted US and coalition troops at the Ain al-Assad base in the western part of the country, and in this case there were no casualties or damage, the official continued.

Also yesterday, “rockets” were fired against a US and coalition base in neighboring Syria, without casualties or damage.

For some of these actions, the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq”, a nebula close to pro-Iranian organizations, which praised its action via Telegram, took responsibility.

In total, Washington counts 72 attacks since October 17 – in other words, ten days after the Israel/Hamas war broke out – which resulted in the injury of some sixty American servicemen. In retaliation, the US bombed three times what it says are Iran-linked facilities in Syria and Hashd facilities in Iraq the day before yesterday.