Drone targets two tank trucks on the Iraqi-Syrian borders.https://t.co/ZArViRzHD4 pic.twitter.com/oMxw0q2hni
— SHAFAQ News (@Shafaqnews) November 9, 2022
A drone targeted tank trucks on the Iraq-Syrian borders, a security source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that 23 tank trucks were heading out of al-Qaim border crossing to Syria, noting that the moment the first two trucks entered the Syrian territory, they were targeted.
The remaining 21 tanks were kept inside Iraqi territory.
The tank trucks probably came from Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...and were heading to
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....
through Syria.
Israel blamed for deadly strike on Iranian convoy at Syria-Iraq border
[IsraelTimes] US denies involvement while Jerusalem remains mum as per its policy; Iranian state TV claims trucks were carrying fuel to
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
, but others claim weapons were also being shipped
Israel was accused Wednesday of carrying out a series of overnight
...
KABOOM!...
s on a convoy near the Syria-Iraq border that left at least 10 people dead, including a number of Iranian fighters.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the strikes on a series of trucks as they crossed into Syria from Iraq at the al-Qaim crossing shortly before midnight Tuesday. The trucks were reportedly carrying fuel and possibly weapons from Iran
...The nation is 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...
to Lebanon.
A report Wednesday from The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the attack, said Israel was behind the strikes, leaving 10 people dead, including an unknown number of Iranians.
Lebanese news outlet al-Mayadeen, seen as close to Shiite terror group
Hezbollah, also blamed Israel for the attack.The Lebanese report said two fuel tankers were targeted in the strikes and claimed there were no deaths. It cited unnamed sources on the ground.
The Israeli army refused to comment on the incident, in line with its general policy not to confirm involvement in specific strikes.
Israel has allegedly carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations. It has acknowledged, however, that it targets arms shipments and posts of Iran-allied bully boy groups, such as Lebanon’s terrorist Hezbollah group.
Asked about the strike Wednesday MK Ram Ben Barak, head of the Knesset’s powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee said only that Israel was "very determined to safeguard Israel’s security."
"We won’t allow Hezbollah to be armed with materiel of this type or others. We’ll do whatever is needed to prevent it," he said.
From its base in Beirut, Hezbollah said it had nothing to do with the convoy that was attacked.
Most alleged Israeli strikes have been focused on areas of Syria closer to Damascus or the country’s center, though it has been accused of carrying out attacks outside that area as well, including in Deir el-Zour, where the attack took place.
The airstrikes, shortly before midnight Tuesday, hit tanker trucks carrying fuel and other trucks carrying weapons for the militias in Syria’s eastern province of Deir el-Zour, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor. At least 14 people, most of them militiamen, were killed in the strike, said the monitor, which has been accused of inflating casualty tolls in the past.
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Earlier, members of Iraqi paramilitary groups operating in the area said an airstrike on a convoy carrying fuel across the Iraqi border into Syria killed at least 10 people late Tuesday. The strike hit a convoy of about 15 trucks that had crossed into Syria near the town of al-Qaim, two paramilitary officers told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
It was unclear where the convoy was coming from, but the officers said some of those killed were Iranian nationals. The officers spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the strikes with news hounds.