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2024-08-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
5 pro-Iran fighters killed in Syria strike: monitor, sources
[NEWARAB] Five Iran-backed fighters were killed on Sunday in a strike in Syria's east, near the Iraqi border, a war monitor said, adding it was not clear yet who was behind the attack.

"Five pro-Iranian fighters were killed and others were maimed, some severely%u2026 after an unknown drone targeted the military vehicle they were in%u2026 near the Syrian-Iraqi border," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The strike occurred in Syria's eastern Deir Az-Zour province, where 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...
wields significant influence and which is regularly targeted by Israel and the United States, according to the Britannia-based monitor with a network of sources inside Syria.

Rooters reported that an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on a vehicle in eastern Syria near the mostly non-existent border with Iraq killed at least five fighters from pro-Iran units, according to two security sources in the region.

One of the sources said the strike was carried out by a drone, but could not specify which military the drone belonged to.

The second source said it targeted fighters as they changed shifts at a checkpoint.
Posted by Fred 2024-08-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11151 views ]  Top
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