U.S. military denies American troops in Syria were attacked

The alleged rocket attack on al-Omar came six days after U.S. troops in eastern Syria came under a similar attack.

A facility housing U.S. troops in eastern Syria came under attack late on Sunday when rockets were fired from nearby areas, an opposition war monitor, state media and a spokesman for U.S.-backed fighters said, though the U.S. military denied there was any attack. “There is no truth to the reports that U.S. forces in Syria were attacked by rockets today,” tweeted coalition spokesperson Col Wayne Marotto. Earlier on Sunday, Siyamend Ali, a spokesperson for the U.S.-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 inflicting any casualties. He added that it was not immediately clear where the rockets were fired from.