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2023-03-26 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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US strikes in Syria kill 19 as Biden vows to 'forcefully' protect personnel; Saturday IRGC, militias move bases in hope Yanks, Israelis won’t find them
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[An Nahar] The corpse count from retaliatory U.S. strikes on Iran-linked groups in Syria following a deadly drone attack has risen to 19, a war monitor said Saturday, as Washington insisted it is not seeking conflict with Tehran.
Further rocket attacks by Iran-backed militias took place late Friday, prompting more strikes by coalition warplanes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Washington carried out the initial strikes after the Pentagon said a U.S. contractor died -- and another contractor and five military personnel were maimed -- by a drone "of Iranian origin" that struck a U.S.-led coalition base near Hasakeh in northeastern Syria on Thursday.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that, at President Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing ...
's direction, he had ordered the "precision air strikes... in eastern Syria against facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps".
On Saturday, the Britannia-based Observatory, which has a wide network of sources on the ground, said 19 people were killed in the first wave of U.S. strikes: three Syrian regime soldiers and 16 members of Iran-backed forces, including 11 Syrian nationals.
Following the strikes, Biden sought to lower the temperature saying the United States "does not seek conflict with Iran, but is prepared to act forcefully to protect our people."
- MORE ROCKET ATTACKS -
Hours after the strikes, 10 rockets were fired at American and coalition forces at the Green Village base in northeast Syria, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said.
There were no injuries or damage to facilities at the base, but one rocket struck a home around five kilometres (three miles) away, causing minor wounds to two women and two children, CENTCOM added.
Iran-backed militias later Friday targeted a base in the Conoco gas field, prompting retaliatory strikes from coalition warplanes on targets in Deir Ezzor city, the Observatory said.
The war monitor said rocket fire then targeted coalition facilities at the al-Omar oil field base and in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, "causing material damage".
A "cautious calm" returned to the Deir Ezzor area in the early hours of Saturday morning, the Observatory said.
Militias affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guards have a heavy presence across Syria, especially around the border with Iraq, and south of the Euphrates in Deir Ezzor province, where the latest U.S. strikes took place.
The United States has about 900 troops in posts across northeastern Syria to keep pressure on the remnants of 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 and support the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which control most of the northeast.
The Pentagon said two F-15 fighters launched the retaliatory attack -- which front man Pat Ryder said was to protect U.S. personnel.
The strikes "were intended to send a very clear message that we will take the protection of our personnel seriously and that we will respond quickly and decisively if they are threatened," he said.
They were "proportionate and deliberate action intended to limit the risk of escalation to minimise casualties," he said.
- 'ALWAYS RESPOND' -
US personnel in Syria have frequently been targeted in attacks by militia groups the United States says are backed by Tehran.
Two of the U.S. service members maimed on Thursday were treated on site, while the three other troops and one US contractor were evacuated to Iraq, the Pentagon said.
"We will always take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing," said CENTCOM chief General Michael Kurilla.
In January, the U.S. military said three one-way attack drones were launched against the al-Tanf garrison in Syria, with one breaching its air defences and wounding two allied Syrian fighters.
Last August, Biden ordered similar retaliatory strikes in Deir Ezzor province after several drones targeted a coalition outpost, without causing any casualties.
"We know that these groups are sponsored by Iran," Ryder said.
"So 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...
certainly plays a role in terms of ensuring that this type of activity doesn't happen," he said.
Iran’s IRGC changes posts fearing US, Israeli attacks in Syria Deir ez-Zor
[NPASyria] Iranian-backed militia changed on Saturday their posts and removed their flags in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, fearing of the repetition of being shelled again by the US-led Global Coalition forces.
On Friday night, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stationed west of the Euphrates River in Deir ez-Zor and the Global Coalition forces stationed to the east exchanged a number of attacks, causing causalities.
A military source of Iranian-backed Liwa Fatemiyoun militia in the al-Mayadin desert, in the northern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, said that the IRGC issued a circular to get down its falgs and raise the flags of the Syrian government.
The IR moved logistic equipment and ammunition to unknown direction, as two posts of the IR were evacuated near Muzarin Ali, in the al-Mayadin, to Fatsa, in the countryside of the al-Mayadin, amid strict measures among its holy warriors, according to the source.
The IRGC evacuated more than eight posts in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, and hard boyz who belong to Iranian and Asian nationalities were moved to an unknown direction, while Syrian and Iraqi hard boyz stayed in posts over which flags of the Syrian government forces are raised, the source added.
A military source of the IRGC said that three of their positions were attacked on Saturday at dawn. The attack lasted for hours, leaving 13 IRGC personnel dead and wounded, according to the source.
It added that Vanguard Camp in Deir ez-Zor, which contains the largest training camp of the IRGC, guard posts of the Iranian-backed Liwa Fatemiyoun militia, and the Hezbollah militia, were attacked.
Drone strikes also targeted Hezbollah headquarters near Ain Ali shrine in the al-Mayadin desert, in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, and an IRGC position on the outskirt of the town of Abu Kamal, he added.
The IRGC militias were on high alert and evacuated their positions after attacking the Global Coalition base in the al-Omar oil field, in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, and the Conoco gas field near the town of al-Azba, in northern Deir ez-Zor, with reports of casualties among US troops.
The Global Coalition forces in the al-Omar and Conoco fields raised their combat readiness to repel any attack against their bases as helicopters were deployed across the Euphrates River bed.
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