A prominent US analyst says damage from a recent attack on a controversial US military base on the Syria-Iraq border is significant, but Washington is keeping it under wraps in order to avoid an escalation.

An unidentified drone targets positions held by Iraqi resistance groups in Syria’s border city of al-Bukamal in the eastern Dayr al-Zawr province.

In response to Saudi Arabia’s ongoing military aggression on its southern neighbor, Yemeni Armed Forces launch a new drone operation against Saudi targets in the kingdom’s southwest.

The United States is reportedly going to increase its drone surveillance and strikes in Afghanistan despite formally pulling out troops after implementing a policy of death and destruction for twenty years. 

The US military says it has carried out a drone strike against a Daesh “planner” in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.

There has been an escalation in the region in recent weeks following an attack on an Israeli-managed tanker off the Omani coast, which Israel and its allies blame on Iran

The two drone strikes hit a military base of Iraq’s PMU near Najaf.

A rocket attack hits an air base hosting US troops in Iraq’s western province of Anbar.

US military officials are struggling to deal with a “rapidly evolving” threat in Iraq against some of the most secretive American installations being targeted by local militia forces “specialized in operating more sophisticated weaponry” such as armed drones.

US military officials are increasingly alarmed by drone attacks from anti-terror resistance groups in Iraq, The Washington Post reports.