Amid heightened Middle East tensions, Iran-backed militants have targeted the US troops stationed at a base in Conoco gas field in northeast of Syria.

According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the Iranian proxy forces fired more than six missiles on the base in northern Deir ez-Zor (Deir Ezzor) countryside, where smoke plumes were seen rising from the targeted site. US forces in the region are in a state of high alert in anticipation of attacks by Iran-aligned forces after the US and UK conducted airstrikes on Houthis in Yemen, another Iranian proxy, in the early hours of Friday local time in response to the group's repeated attacks on the Red Sea shipping.

According to reliable SOHR sources, some of the missiles hit civilian facilities in Al-Azbah village near the gas field, causing material damage.

The war monitor said that it has documented 88 attacks carried out by Iranian-backed militias on Coalition bases in different areas across Syria since October 19, less than two weeks after Islamist militia Hamas invaded Israel, killed 1,400 people and took more than 200 hostages into Gaza. Iran denies involvement in the October 7 attack but almost its proxies have intensified attacks on US and Israeli targets in the region as well as commercial vessels at their reach.