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2023-01-31 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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10 (or 11) dead in drone strikes on pro-Iran groups in Syria
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[An Nahar] A total of 10 people were killed in a series of dronezaps targeting pro-Iran
 ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
factions in eastern Syria, including three dead in strikes on Monday, a war monitor said.
A pro-Iranian commander was among the three killed in the dronezaps Monday, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that they had been inspecting the site of strikes that had killed seven others the previous evening.
"A commander in an Iran-backed group and two of his lover companions, all of them non-Syrian, were killed this morning after renewed dronezaps," the Observatory said Monday.
The commander's pick-up truck was targeted while he was inspecting the site of the Sunday evening strike that destroyed a convoy of six refrigerated trucks transporting Iranian weapons to Syria from Iraq.
The convoy was struck in the Albu Kamal border region where pro-Iran groups have a large presence, said the Observatory, which has a wide network of sources inside Syria.
The seven killed Sunday were truck drivers and their assistants, all of them non-Syrians, the Observatory said, adding that they were "killed as a result of unidentified aircraft targeting a convoy of Iran-backed groups".
No country claimed the strikes, but Israel has carried out hundreds of air and missile strikes against Iran-backed and government forces in Syria, where the U.S. military is also active.
"The trucks were transporting Iranian weapons," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman had told AFP Sunday.
Tehran provides military support to its ally Damascus in Syria's civil war, including through armed factions.
The strikes hit a convoy of trucks, but also the headquarters of Iran-backed groups in the area, activist muppet Omar Abu Layla, who heads the Deir Ezzor 24 media outlet, told AFP Monday.
"There was heavy damage in the area that was struck," he said.
A pro-Syrian government radio station had reported Sunday that "unidentified war planes targeted, in a number of raids, six refrigerated trucks", without providing further details.
The Syrian government did not immediately comment on the strikes. AFP also reached out to Iraqi authorities who declined to comment on the attack.
| For some reason Rudaw paired its article on the subject with a photo of Iranian-backed Afghan Fatimiyoun militia men taken in Syria's eastern Deir ez-Zor province. Perhaps it’s meant to be a hint about the identity of the undescribed commander and/or his escorts... or perhaps the editors just wanted a generic group of a pro-Iranian militia. |
In 3rd attack in hours, aircraft said to strike Iranian truck on Syria-Iraq border
| Some overlap with the article above, which ai leqve you to untqngle, dear Reader. |
 [IsraelTimes] Unverified reports claim target was loaded with weapons and ammunition, after similar attack overnight and another strike in the morning
Unverified media reports claimed Monday that unidentified aircraft struck a truck near the Syria-Iraq border, hours after a similar strike was reported overnight Sunday and a separate attack in the morning hours.
The Syrian opposition online outlet Naher Media said the truck that was hit in the city of Abu Kamal was loaded with weapons and ammunition destined for Iranian militias. The claim could not be independently verified.
According to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor with questionable veracity and unclear funding, one person was killed in the attack Monday afternoon, bringing the toll of the three recent attacks in the area to 11.
The organization, run by a single person, has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of false reporting and inflating casualty numbers as well as inventing them wholesale.
There were no further details on the apparent attack, but images circulating online showed smoke rising from the area.
The incident came after Arab media reported Sunday night that unidentified aircraft had struck a convoy of Iranian trucks at the al-Qaim crossing on the Syria-Iraq border, where frequent Iranian military activity has been reported.
Pro-Iran
 ...The nation is 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...
factions, including Iraqi groups as well as Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
’s Hezbollah terror group, have a major presence around the Iraq-Syria border, and are heavily deployed south and west of the Euphrates in Syria’s Deir Ezzor province. Iran is believed to frequently truck weapons to Hezbollah from Iraq and via Syria.
In a third reported dronezap Monday morning, SOHR said a pro-Iran commander was among three killed. Further details were not known. It added that the overnight strike killed seven others.
The monitor could not verify the identities of the victims.
As a rule, Israel’s military does not comment on specific strikes in Syria, but has admitted to conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country, over the last decade.
The IDF says it also attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups, chief among them Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Additionally, Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s attributed to Israel have repeatedly targeted Syrian air defense systems.
Israeli strikes have continued in Syrian airspace, which is largely controlled by Russia, even as ties with Moscow have frayed over the past year. Israel has found itself at odds with Russia as it has increasingly supported Ukraine while seeking to maintain freedom of movement in Syria’s skies. 
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