Courtney Kube is a correspondent covering national security and the military for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
Bases in Iraq and Syria with U.S. personnel have been attacked at least 10 times since Thursday, bringing the total number of attempted attacks on U.S. targets in the region since Oct. 17 to 38, according to three U.S. defense officials. The officials say most of the attacks have come via one-way drones and rockets and there have not been any new U.S. casualties or damage to infrastructure. Most of the newest attacks occurred on Sunday and Monday, according to U.S. officials.
launched retaliatory strikes on two Iranian-linked targets in Syria on Oct. 26. Before they retaliated, U.S. and coalition forces had been attacked repeatedly in Iraq and Syria, according to defense officials. The U.S. defines attacks as attempted strikes on U.S. facilities. Not all attempts actually reach the U.S. targets. Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Defense Department press secretary, said on Oct.
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