14 pro-Iran fighters of Afghan and Iraqi nationalities killed in airstrikes on Boukamal, eastern Syria — Syrian Observatory for Human Rights pic.twitter.com/dPJteNwYnq
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The Israeli army said it doesn't comment on foreign reports.
More than 10 strikes hit positions of Iran-backed militias outside the border town of Albu Kamal, according to the war monitor.
The attack killed eight Iraqis and six Afghan fighters, it said.
It also destroyed two bases as well as several military vehicles, the Observatory added.
Iran-backed fighters are heavily deployed in a stretch of territory between the Syrian towns of Albu Kamal and Mayadeen, both former strongholds 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group.
Along with Russia, 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
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. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
has been a key backer of the Damascus regime in its nine-year-long civil war.