Shafaq News/ Iraqi Resistance Factions, an umbrella of mainly Iran-backed Shiite paramilitary groups, has claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on a military base housing US troops in northern Syria.

A press release by the group said they targeted "a military base of the US occupation forces in the Conoco gas field in Deir ez-Zor's northern countryside with a barrage of rockets."

The rockets, according to the press release, achieved "direct hits" to the targets.

Al-Mayadeen, a TV channel close to Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah, reported that the base was struck with 15 rockets following a US airstrike targeting civilian trucks on the Syrian side of the borders with Iraq.