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KABOOM!...
s on a weapon storage facility belonging to Iran-backed groups in Syria, adding that the attack was in retaliation to a prior attack by the militia groups.
US forces "conducted a strike against an Iranian-aligned militia weapons storage facility in Syria," US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement.
"The strike is in response to an Iranian-aligned attack against U.S. forces in Syria yesterday," it added.
CENTCOM said that the strikes targeted the Iran-backed groups’ weapon storage facilities "to degrade their ability to plan and launch future attacks on U.S. and Coalition forces," as part of the anti-Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) operations in the region.
No details were provided on the precise location of the strikes.
An assessment is underway, according to the statement, to determine details on the extent of damages, adding that they "currently do not assess there were any civilian casualties."
The UK-based war monitor, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), reported on Tuesday that Iran-backed militias fired two rockets at al-Shadadi military base, which houses US troops in Hasaka province.
US aerial defense systems intercepted the two rockets before they could hit their targets, according to SOHR.
Around 2,500 American troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria are leading an international coalition through Operation Inherent Resolve that has assisted Kurdish, Iraqi, and local Syrian forces in the fight against ISIS, which once held swathes of land in Iraq and Syria but was declared devoid of territorial control in 2017 and 2019 respectively.
Attacks on US troops in Iraq and Syria have increased since the Paleostinian Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...group carried out a cross-border attack on southern Israel in October 2023. The pro-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
groups accuse the US of supporting Israel in the fight against Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement - another Iran-backed group.