Sputnik reported from local sources in Al-Hasakah that a US Army helicopter, specifically an "Apache," unexpectedly crashed at a base established by the US military in the (Jabsa oil fields) area, south of Al-Hasakah in northeastern Syria.
The sources continued that the helicopter collided with a road near the camp located inside the US base while refueling and was visibly damaged, with information about injuries among its crew. The sources indicated that US forces reinforced security around the base following the incident, cordoning off the area around the crash site.
The sources confirmed that the Al-Shaddadi US base in southern Al-Hasakah has recently witnessed heavy flight activity, coinciding with increased operations to transfer ISIS detainees from the central prison and the industrial prison surrounding the city of Al-Hasakah to the Al-Shaddadi area and then to the Al-Tanf desert, where the US base is located at the Syrian, Iraqi, and Jordanian border triangle.
Additionally, local sources in Deir Ezzor countryside confirmed to a Sputnik reporter that a rocket shell fell in the vicinity of the town of Dhiban in Deir Ezzor due to military exercises being conducted by US forces with their allied SDF militants at the base. Just days ago, a child was killed and several family members injured after a shell fell as a result of military exercises conducted by the forces at the "Omar" oil field in the village of Al-Izbah in Deir Ezzor countryside.
