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Iraq

Iraqi militias reportedly agree to end drone attacks on Israel

2024-12-24

[IsraelTimes] Source tells Hezbollah-aligned al-Akhbar outlet that agreement was made with Baghdad government to end assaults due to volatile situation in region, uncertainty over Trump policies

Shiite militia groups in Iraq have decided to stop attacking Israel, a Lebanese report claimed Monday, in what would mark the latest retreat by a regional Iranian proxy that had attempted to pile pressure on Jerusalem.

Iraq-based militias have launched dozens of attack drones at Israel since war broke out in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
following Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’s October 7, 2023, assault, alongside other members of Iran’s so-called Axis of Resistance®, including Hezbollah in Leb
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
, the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, and 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 spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
groups in Syria.

While most of the attacks from Iraq have been largely ineffective, in October, two soldiers were killed and 24 others maimed when an Iraqi drone hit their Golan Heights base.

According to Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar, seen as linked to the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, the militia groups operating under the Popular Mobilization Forces agreed to stop the attacks at the urging of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
i.

The report cited an unnamed leader of Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, an Iraqi militia loyal to Iran, which wields wide influence over Shiite groups in the country.

He said the factions were waiting for US President-elect Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
to take office next month to see how he approaches the region and particularly Iran.

An official from the allied Kata’ib Sayyed
Sayyed

...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged...
al-Shuhada group told al-Akbar that the Iraqi faction had ended its attacks in coordination with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which agreed late last month to halt its rocket and drone launches after months of punishing counterattacks from Israel.

The official also noted that the militia had "partners in Iraq who have an opinion and reservations about those operations, and they must be listened to."

What matters, the official said, is that "there is communication between the parties of the Axis of Resistance® for the purpose of coordinating positions and coming up with a unified vision."

According to the Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba leader, the groups also agreed to avoid getting involved in Syria, where Salafist tough guys earlier this month ousted the regime of Iran-backed dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
. He cited concerns that Iraq could experience worse instability than Syria, leading to a resurgence of terrorism.

Tehran, he said, had given the factions freedom of choice on how to act regarding Syria.

The source described reported pressure on the Iraqi government to shut down the PMF and other factions and confiscate their arms as a US-Israeli plot to bring about "the surrender of the Axis of Resistance®."

According to al-Akhbar, Sudani recently denied that there was any such plan.

There was no outside confirmation of the report.

On October 7, 2023, the Iran-backed Paleostinian terror group Hamas led a devastating attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and opened the still-ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.

The following day, Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah began firing across the border at northern Israel, causing the evacuation of 60,000 residents from the area. The fighting spiraled into open war in September that ended last month with a fragile ceasefire after Israel decimated the Hezbollah leadership and its weapons stockpiles.

Days later, Syrian rebels swept across the country, taking the capital Damascus while Assad fled.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels have also been firing rockets and drones at Israel from Yemen, including several attacks last week, one of which saw 16 people injured when a missile hit Tel Aviv Saturday.

Israel has bombed Houthi sites in Yemen three times over the past year, but the group has vowed to continue its attacks.

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Terror Networks

Iran's proxies target Israel: Here's what to know about them

2024-04-14

[Jpost] Iranian pro-government media said in the early hours of April 14 that it had attacked Israel on four fronts. This included attacks by Iran itself using drones and missiles, as well as threats from Iranian-backed groups in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. Iran has spread its proxies throughout the region. These groups pose an increasing threat to Israel and Israel’s partners and allies. It’s important to understand who these groups are and what their capabilities may be.

HEZBOLLAH
Hezbollah is the largest and oldest of the Iranian partner and proxy groups in the region. Founded in the 1980s, it has played an increasingly influential role in Lebanon, essentially controlling who is elected president and controlling parts of the economy. Hezbollah has stockpiled more than 150,000 rockets over the last thirty years. Some of these are short-range rockets that threaten northern Galilee. Other Hezbollah rockets are long-range and can threaten all of Israel, almost to Eilat. In addition, Hezbollah increasingly has precision-guided munitions, meaning it can target strategic infrastructure with precision. In addition, Hezbollah is now believed to have 2,000 drones, which it has increasingly used against Israel. Hezbollah also has anti-tank missiles and thousands of fighters. Some of its fighters are part of its more elite “Radwan” force. Hezbollah has suffered casualties in its attacks on Israel since October 8. Around 250 of its members have been killed. This is a setback for the group. It has also carried out around 3,100 attacks on Israel.

THE HOUTHIS
The Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen have been increasingly a threat since 2015. Originally a small rebel movement, they burst on the scene in 2015 when they took over a swath of Yemen. They are based in the mountains around Sana’a, but they also threatened the coastal cities of Aden and Hodeidah. This caused Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries to intervene in Yemen in 2015. The Houthis received ballistic missile and drone technology from Iran and built an impressive local industry to create long-range missiles and drones. They also developed cruise missiles. Iran used these weapons to target Saudi Arabia, including Riyadh. After October 7 the Houthis began to target Eilat using drones and cruise missiles and then ballistic missiles. Later, the Houthis began targeting ships. It has carried out dozens of attacks on commercial ships, and it has hijacked one ship. It claims to be targeting Israeli-linked and Western ships. The Houthi capabilities have expanded greatly in the last several years. Beginning in 2020, Iran also based its Shahed 136 drones in Yemen. The Houthis now can strike at southern Israel with their weapons.

THE IRAQI MILITIAS
Iran has been backing militias in Iraq since the 1980s. Key militia leaders such as Hadi al-Amiri, the head of the Badr organization, and the late Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were close to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Abu Mahdi was active in supporting Iran’s terrorist causes in the 1980s, such as targeting Kuwait and other countries and groups. After the US invasion of 2003, the Iranian-backed militias began to increase their power in Iraq, feeding off the power vacuum. Abu Mahdi’s Kataib Hezbollah became the vanguard of these militias. It was joined not only by Badr but also by Asaib Ahl al-Haq, whose leader, Qias Khazali, had once been detained by the Americans in Iraq. Other groups popped up as well, such as Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba. In 2014, after ISIS invaded Iraq, the Iranian-backed militias formed the backbone of a paramilitary army called the Popular Mobilization Forces, which numbered more than 100,000 fighters. After the defeat of ISIS in 2017 in Iraq, the militias became an official government-paid force linked to the Iraqi Interior Ministry. In essence, they became the Iranian IRGC of Iraq. The groups then stockpiled missiles and drones. They began to operate more freely in Syria and to threaten US forces and Israel. They also carried out kidnappings, such as the kidnapping of researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov in 2023. They murdered key Iraqi intellectuals and targeted Kurds. They have targeted Israel since October 7, using long-range drones to target Iraq and other areas.

IRANIAN MILITIAS IN SYRIA
Iran’s IRGC operates in Syria. During the Syrian civil war, Iran recruited many groups to support the Assad regime. These included Hezbollah, Iraqi militias, and also Shi’ites from Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2018, Iran began to build up more bases for these groups, such as the Imam Ali base near Albukamal and also encouraged Hezbollah to open its “Golan file” to threaten Israel from the Golan. Iran also moved drones to Syria and tried to move air defenses to its T-4 base in 2018. The Iranian-backed militias in Syria are disparate and have varying capabilities, but most of them are relatively weak. They have targeted US forces and also Israel. They usually require close IRGC supervision and guidance.

PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD
Palestinian Islamic Jihad is an Iranian proxy group that is also a Palestinian group. Unlike Hezbollah or the militias in Iraq, it is not a Shi’ite group. PIJ has terrorists in Gaza and participated in the October 7 attack. It had thousands of rockets and thousands of fighters in Gaza, but it has taken losses over six months of war. In the West Bank, PIJ is active mostly in Jenin, where it also has hundreds of members. It has benefited from the illegal trafficking of rifles in the West Bank and has tried to increase its stockpile of weapons and explosives and move into IED (explosive) production. The group is relatively small but has destabilized the northern West Bank and poses an increasing threat.

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Iraq

American drone crashes near an airbase in Iraq, Iran’s catspaws claim they dunnit

2024-01-20

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A fallen American drone was discovered near an Iraqi airbase,

...did it have parts made in China?

and an investigation into the incident began, RIA Novosti reported on January 20 with reference to the Pentagon.

“At 19:20 (the time coincides with Moscow. - Note by IA Regnum ), an American unmanned aerial vehicle fell near the Balad air base in Iraq,” the US Department of Defense said in a statement.

It is noted that the drone was picked up by Iraqi law enforcement officers. There were no reports of casualties. An investigation is underway.

As Regnum reported, on January 4, in the Iraqi capital, a drone strike killed one of the commanders of the pro-Iranian Shiite movement Hezbollah al-Nujabaa, better known as Abu Taqwa, as well as his supporter. The deceased headed the 12th brigade of the movement. Hezbollah al-Nujabaa confirmed the death of the commander and blamed the United States for what happened. The target of the UAV attack was the headquarters of the logistics forces in Baghdad.

At the end of December 2023, the US military carried out strikes on three targets of the Kataib Hezbollah group and associated groups in Iraq. The Pentagon called the attack a response to attacks against the US military in Iraq and Syria, including the shelling of a US air base at the airport in the city of Erbil in northern Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan).

US says probing cause of drone crash in Iraq after Iran-backed militias claim to down UAV

[IsraelTimes] An American drone crashed north of Baghdad, a US defense official says Friday, after Iran-backed bully boyz claimed they fired on an unmanned aircraft flying over Iraq.

"A US UAV crashed near Balad airbase, Iraq" on Thursday night local time, the official tells AFP, without identifying the type of drone that was lost.

"Iraqi security forces recovered the aircraft. There were no injuries reported," the official says, adding that "an investigation of the cause of the crash is underway."

The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq, a loose alliance of Iran-linked gangs that oppose US support for Israel, said Friday that it fired on a US MQ-9 — a type of drone that can be used for both surveillance and strikes — which was operating over Iraq the day before.

"Mujahideen yesterday targeted... an MQ-9 drone belonging to the American occupation," the group said in a statement.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US military base in Syria attacked by drones

2024-01-09

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Drones attacked a US military base in northeastern Syria, Al Mayadeen TV channel reported on January 8.

Earlier on January 8, in eastern Syria, a US military base in the Al-Omar oil field east of Deir ez-Zor was attacked with rockets. According to the channel's sources, 30 missiles were used against the American military.

This happened after the US military attacked a truck at the Al-Qaim-Al-Bukamal checkpoint on the border with Iraq. The TV channel noted that the Islamic resistance continues to attack American bases in Iraq and Syria.

As Regnum reported, according to the Shafaq News portal, on January 5 in Iraq, in the vicinity of the city of Erbil, a drone attacked the American military base of Harir.

The day before, in Baghdad, field commander Mushtaq Javad Qasima al-Jawari (Abu Taqwa ), the commander of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah al-Nujabaa movement, was killed in a strike in Baghdad.

After this, the head of the Iraqi government, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, announced the beginning of the withdrawal of the remaining foreign troops from Iraq.

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Iraq

US claims strike that killed Shiite PMF big turban in Baghdad, names him for the record; Iraqi gov’t protests

2024-01-05

Follow up to this story from yesterday.

[IsraelTimes] PMF leader’s vehicle hit, according to US official; paramilitary force says Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi ’martyred’ in attack

The US military has carried out a strike in Baghdad against an Iraqi militia leader it blames for attacks against US forces in the country, killing him and another person, a US official told Rooters on Thursday.

The US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the strike hit a vehicle in Baghdad. It targeted a leader of Harakat al Nujaba,

...more formally Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, officially the 12th Brigade, is a radical Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary group that is especially active in Syria and Iraq. It was established in 2013 by Akram al-Kaabi to support Bashar al-Assad in Syria against Islamist rebels, at the behest of the IRGC's Quds Force, which provides the funding, weapons, and training....

the official said, without naming the person.

Earlier Thursday, the Popular Mobilization Force (PMF) said that the strike in Baghdad had killed a military commander of the ex-paramilitary force, with an Iraq security official reporting two deaths in a drone attack.

"A drone targeted the logistical support headquarters of PMF," mainly pro-Iranian former paramilitary units integrated into the Iraqi armed forces, said the security official.

The strike killed "two members and maimed seven others," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
A PMF source, also asking not to be named, confirmed the corpse count and charged that the United States was behind the attack.

Harakat al-Nujaba, one of the PMF’s factions, said in a statement that "the deputy commander of operations for Baghdad, Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi" had been "martyred in a US strike."

There was no immediate comment from US officials, whose forces in Iraq and neighboring Syria have faced a surge in attacks since the start of the Israel-Hamas
Hamas

...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
war.

Videos shared on a Telegram channel linked to the PMF showed columns of smoke rising above the area of the strike on Baghdad’s Paleostine Street, normally a bustling commercial road.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
i said in a statement that the US-led international coalition bears responsibility for the "unjustified" attack on an Iraqi security force.

A tally by US military officials has counted at least 118 attacks against its troops in Iraq and Syria since October 17. Most of the attacks have been claimed by the Islamic Resistance® in Iraq, a loose formation of gangs affiliated with the PMF (also known as Hashed al-Shaabi), itself a coalition of former paramilitary forces integrated into Iraq’s regular armed forces.

The spike in tension has put Baghdad in a delicate situation. Iraq’s Prime Minister Sudani has tried to ease the strain between the krazed killer groups that helped him reach power and the US where Iraq’s foreign reserves are housed.

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Iraq reported that a pro-Iranian movement commander was killed in a UAV strike

[Regnum] A drone strike in the Iraqi capital killed one of the commanders of the pro-Iranian Shiite movement Hezbollah al-Nujabaa, as well as its supporter, the Shafaq News information portal reported on January 4, citing a source in the security forces.

According to him, the deceased was known as Abu Taqwa, he headed the 12th brigade of the movement, and was also a supporter of the Iraqi Shiite militia Al-Hashd al-Shaabi.

Hezbollah al-Nujabaa confirmed the death of the commander and blamed the United States for what happened. The target of the UAV attack, according to the portal's sources, was the headquarters of the logistics forces in Baghdad.

As Regnum reported, on January 3, two explosions occurred in the Iranian city of Kerman during a mourning ceremony on the anniversary of the death of General Qassem Soleimani. They were carried out remotely; the bombs were placed in bags that were lying near the mausoleum building. 103 people died, the number of injured exceeded 200 people.

Authorities called the incident a terrorist attack. Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi promised to find and punish those involved in the terrorist attack in Kerman. He also called on all officials to provide assistance to those injured during the terrorist attack.

The US State Department said on January 3 that the United States was not involved in the explosions in Iran and saw no reason to blame Israel for this. The White House is “closely monitoring” the situation in Iran, department spokesman Matthew Miller emphasized.

Update at 4:05 p.m. ET — Rudaw clarifies:

Harakat al-Nujaba comprises the PMF’s 12th brigade, and is among the Iran-backed groups that Washington blames for a spate of drone attacks on American interests in Iraq and Syria since mid-October in response to American support for Israel in its war against Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

Among the casualties is Mushtaq Talib al-Saeedi, better known as Abu Taqwa. He was a former commander of al-Nujaba and the deputy commander of the PMF’s Baghdad Belt Operations.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Assailants attack Iranian-backed militia post in Syria's Deir ez-Zor

2023-06-26

[NPASYRIA] On Sunday, four ~~bandidos~~ murderous Moslems from the Iranian-backed Hashemiyoun militia sustained injuries in an armed attack against their headquarters in the city of Abu Kamal, east of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.

A military source of the militia in Abu Kamal said that person or persons unknown targeted with machineguns the headquarters of the Rapid Support forces of the Iranian-backed Hashemiyoun militia on the outskirts of the Abu Kamal desert in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.

The source told North Press that the attack resulted in "critical" injuries in four members of the militia. They were taken to hospital inside Iraqi territories.

The attack lasted over half an hour and "if support had not come to the ~~bandidos~~ murderous Moslems in the headquarters, the attackers would have fully controlled it due to using up the ammunition," according to the source.

Iranian-backed militias and Syrian government forces control large swathes of the Syrian Desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, where the Islamic State

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Civilian houses turned to military posts for IRGC in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor

2023-05-25

[NPASyria] After being threatened frequently by a non-Syrian commander of an Iranian-backed militia and for fear of being arrested, al-Abd was forced to leave his house in Deir ez-Zor, east Syria, and move to areas under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

Muhammad al-Abd, a pseudonym for a resident of the town of Abu Kamal in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, relocated to the city of Hajin, said, "An Iraqi commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forced me to leave my house after accusing me of giving information about their headquarters, which is located near my house."

Iranian-backed militias continue committing human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
violations against civilians in areas under their control in Deir ez-Zor. They commit appropriation of property by confiscating civilian houses under false pretenses, then turning them to either military headquarters or houses to settle families of their foreign or Arab turbans.

Al-Abd told North Press, "The IRGC warned me multiple times to evacuate my house because it was close to one of their headquarters in the town of al-Sukariya west of Abu Kamal."

He refused several times, but the IRGC’s Iraqi officers threatened him that in case their headquarters was attacked, he would be the first suspect.

"The next day, the murderous Moslems shot randomly towards my house under the pretext of being under attack, which prompted me to leave the house," he added.

He later found out that the Iraqi commander settled his family in the house after al-Abd and his family left.

The Iranian-backed militias forcefully turn the houses of civilians in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, particularly in al-Mayadin and Abu Kamal, to security headquarters, taking advantage of the absence of their owners or the involvement of some in other military groups, in addition seizing the houses by force.

They justify their practices by several charges, accusing owners of either joining the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-backed opposition factions, also known as the Syrian National Army (SNA), the SDF, or the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS).

During the early days of Syria’s civil war, 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 spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
teamed up to support Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
against the opposition and sent military consultants, through which it increased the size of its military presence in different Syrian regions.

According to activists in Abu Kamal, the Iranian-backed Liwa Fatemiyoun, Hashemiyoun, Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba militias "seized over 200 houses in Abu Kamal and its countryside since the beginning of 2023, particularly in al-Sukariya, and villages of al-Salihiyah and al-Hamdan."

Ragheb al-Salem, 50, from the Tamo neighborhood on the southern part of al-Mayadin, 40 km east of Deir ez-Zor, said, "Most of the people in the neighborhood are foreign murderous Moslems of the IRGC, especially Afghans."

He stressed that the original inhabitants live in rented houses in other neighborhoods "because they were accused of several charges to force them out of their houses."

Al-Salem owns a shop for selling dessert in his neighborhood with four apartments, belonging to him and his three brothers in Gulf States, above it. He was forced to evacuate the building and the shop after an IRGC patrol notified him to do so. He had no choice but to comply.

He said, "The next day, they brought workers and equipment and removed walls to make the apartments one in order to access easily from one to another. Then they brought weapons and logistics to the building and raised the Syrian flag above, forcing me to close my shop and move out of the town."

The IRGC militias confiscate the civilians houses that are distant from their posts to be used as hideouts in case their posts are bombed, according to locals.

The town of al-Mayadin has almost become a military "colony" for the IRGC. The original people are located in few neighborhoods scattered on the outskirts of the town, especially after the region has become a destination for "Shiite pilgrims" since it contains their largest shrine, the Ain Ali shrine.

Al-Mayadin connects Deir ez-Zor and Abu Kamal, making most of the IRGC murderous Moslems prefer to live there with their families.

Earlier, the IRGC seized five buildings in the al-Jumiyat neighborhood in the center of Abu Kamal and turned them into military posts. Later, unidentified aircrafts bombed and destroyed the buildings.

IRGC was created after Iran’s 1979 revolution to protect the new Islamic regime, the IRGC has become one of the most powerful paramilitary organizations in the Middle East. It has provided assistance to turban groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, Leb
Leb

...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, the Paleostinian territories, Syria, and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
. Its control over large sectors of the Iranian economy helps it fund its activities.

The Syrian Desert covers nearly half of the area of Syria, and is distributed over the governorates of Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Rif Dimashq, Suwayda and Palmyra.

Iranian-backed militias and the government forces control large areas of the Syrian Desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, which constitutes a source of concern as it witnesses intensive operations by the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) sleeper cells.

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Iraq

Kataib Hezbollah dissolves militia following Sadr’s call

2021-11-20

[Rudaw] The hardline pro-Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
militia Kataib

Hezbollah announced on Friday the dissolution of one of its gangs, following a call from Shiite holy man Moqtada Tater al-Sadr
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry...
for militias to disband and leave all weapons in control of the state.

Abu Ali al-Askari, a senior Kataib Hezbollah official, said on Telegram that "in response to what was published by one of the friendly parties regarding the initiative to disband its military forces," his militia group has decided to dissolve its Saraya al-Difa al-Shaabi (Popular Defense Brigades), ordering it to "stop all its activities and close its headquarters."

When the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group (ISIS) seized controlled swathes of Syrian and Iraqi land in 2014, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for Iraqis to take up arms and defend the country. This paved the way for the formation militia groups under the umbrella of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi). The PMF has since been absorbed into the Iraqi security forces, but many of the militias operate outside of the control of the state and some are backed by Iran.

Sadr, whose movement won the most seats in last month’s parliamentary election and is set to lead the next government, on Thursday called on the militias to disband if they want to join his cabinet. Political parties affiliated with the pro-Iran militias did poorly in the election and their supporters have rejected the results and staged protests. Askari responded to Sadr saying that Kataib Hezbollah would give up their weapons only after Sadr’s gang, Saraya al-Salam, and the Kurdish Peshmerga did so.

On Friday, Sadr announced he was shutting down one of his brigades. "As a goodwill gesture from me, I announce the dissolution of the al-Yum al-Wuud [the Promised Day] Brigade, and the closure of their headquarters," he tweeted. He said the group had previously handed over its weapons and that anyone in the brigade who still has a weapon must turn it in within 48 hours.

"I hope this step will be the beginning of the dissolution of gangs as well as the handover of their weapons and closure of their bases," he said.

Askari said that the members of the disbanded Popular Defense Brigades will be embedded within the PMF and maintain their entitlements. He also said he hoped that Sadr would transfer control of his three brigades over to the PMF and "make understandings with the leaders of the Peshmerga to complete its dissolution and be embedded into the Iraqi security forces."

The Peshmerga have not immediately commented on Askari’s statement.

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Air strike targets Iranian-backed militia in Syria's Deir ez-Zor

2021-10-13

[NPASYRIA] Yesterday on Monday, an unidentified warplane targeted two sites of Iranian-backed factions near al-Bukamal city on the Syrian-Iraqi border, eastern Syria.

"An unidentified warplane bombed two military points of Liwa al-Quds with several missiles near the border," a military source of the Hashemiyoun faction which is affiliated with Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said.

The targeting led to the killing of a leader of the Iranian-backed Liwa al-Quds when he was passing the border towards Iraq.

It also affected a vehicle which was loaded with ammunition near a military point of the Harakat

Hezbollah al-Nujaba on the Iraqi side, the source added.

The killed leader is of Iraqi origin and he was armament official in the Liwa al-Quds, according to the source.

The air strike coincided with targeting a car near al-Sukhna town, east of Homs, central Syria, which led to the killing of three Iraqi leaders of the Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, according to a military source of the Syrian government forces.

The source told North Press that the car was heading to al-Sukhna area before it was targeted.

On October 8, unidentified drone targeted an armory of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the city of al-Bukamal, east of Deir ez-Zor.

Syrian government forces and Iranian-backed factions with Russian support have been running the city of al-Bukamal and al-Mayadin in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor since November 2017 following battles against the Islamic State

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Erbil airport attacked with explosive-laden drones: counter-terror directorate

2021-09-12

Snip. Duplicate.

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ISIS emir arrested in Deir ez-Zor

2021-08-16

[Rudaw] An 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) emir was arrested in a joint security operation conducted by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and international coalition forces in western Deir ez-Zor, local media and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Saturday.

The SDF and coalition forces clashed with the emir, an Iraqi, for nearly 40 minutes after storming his house. He was later arrested and his house blown up, SOHR said.

The joint operation was supported by four helicopters and a fighter jet, it added. The operation was also reported by the North Press Agency (NPA), an outlet close to the SDF.

ISIS seized control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014. The last of its so-called caliphate was defeated in Syria in 2019, but the group remains a threat on both sides of the border, particularly in Deir ez-Zor, which is controlled by both the SDF and regime forces.

The SDF frequently conducts security operations against ISIS turbans. The force launched 34 operations against the group in the first half of this year, in which 245 suspects were arrested and three others were killed.

Many of the operations have been focused in the border areas where in late June they arrested 22 ISIS suspects, and 24 across 53 locations in late May.

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Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba announces it will join Hassan Nasrallah’s equation on Jerusalem

2021-08-07

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Along with Hezbollah, Hamas, PIJ and Kataib Hezbollah, Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba announced it will join Hassan Nasrallah’s equation on Jerusalem they say https://t.co/KfHQM7ITTh
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) August 6, 2021

Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba is one of the Iraqi Shiite Popular Mobilization Force paramilitary groups that have fought alongside Hezbollah under IRGC-Qods Force orders in Syria since 2011. They are paid by the governments of both Iran and Iraq as a formal PMF group, listed as reporting to the prime minister of Iraq. And they do indeed follow his orders when he tells them to do something Iran already ordered.

Kataib Hezbollah is another Iraqi PMF group, though they spent more time in Iraq fighting ISIS, mostly returning to attacking American bases in Iraq after ISIS was dealt with. Both groups started out fighting the Coalition on the Iran payroll in the years after the second Iraq War.

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