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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

6 Iranian militiamen killed, wounded in clashes with clans in Deir ez-Zor

2023-07-22

[NPAsyria] Two Lions of Islam of an Iranian-backed militia were killed on Thursday night and four others were maimed in festivities with rustics in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria.

Fierce festivities with machine guns erupted between the Iranian-backed Liwa Fatemiyoun militia and a group of members of al-Qar’an clan in the town of al-Qoriya, east of Deir ez-Zor, a source from the town told North Press.

Liwa Fatemiyoun is an Afghan Shia militia formed in 2014 to fight in Syria on the side of the Syrian government. It is funded, trained and supported by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and it fights under the commands of Iranian officers.

...drawn from Afghan Hazera Shiites, both from the home folks and among the refugees in Iran. The Taliban really don’t like that some of the Hazera minority are getting military training and experience...

The festivities resulted in the killing of two members of the "Fatemiyoun" and the wounding of four others, however, the Fatemiyoun arrested dozens of the residents of the town and imposed a security cordon.

Since then, the IRGC conducted patrols in the town to raid the neighborhoods and arrest people to suppress any possible rebellion against it, according to the source.

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 krazed killer 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.

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