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Pro-Iran groups target US forces in eastern Syria: Monitor
[Rudaw] Iran-backed groups in Syria used rockets and drones to attack a gas field in eastern Deir ez-Zor province late Friday, a war monitor reported, adding the facility houses US forces.

The militia groups fired rockets and drones at the Conoco gas field in the al-Ezba area resulting in "violent mostly peaceful explosions," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based war monitor reported.

SOHR added that US troops based at the field intercepted some rockets.

"This was followed by a response by the forces inside the base targeting the source of the attack," reported SOHR, which relies on a network of sources within Syria.

No party has grabbed credit, and the US military has not commented.

The area in the Middle Euphrates River Valley is controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the partnered ground force of the US-led international coalition against 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....
 (ISIS).

Pro-Tehran groups have carried out at least 142 attacks on the coalition across Syria since October 2023, according to SOHR.

The attack comes amid increased conflict between US-allied Israel and pro-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...
groups, primarily Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
 in Paleostine and Hezbollah in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah 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 dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original 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...
 and Syria.

The United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
 has expressed concern over the possibility of conflict spilling across the wider region.
Posted by: trailing wife 2024-10-06
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