BEIRUT, November 5. /TASS/. Armed Shiite groups of the Islamic Resistance Movement of Iraq attacked a US military base near the al-Omar oil field in the Syrian governorate of Deir ez-Zor, Sham FM radio station reported.

According to the radio station, at least three explosions were heard on the territory of the military unit.

Witnesses say Shiite units fighting on the side of the Syrian government army used kamikaze drones to attack the US base.

A US and Western coalition military base in Syria’s al-Tanf area was attacked twice on October 27.

A spokesman for the Shiite movement, Jafar al-Husseini, said earlier that the movement “will help its Palestinian and Lebanese brothers and intensify attacks on Israel and American installations in the region.”