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2024-03-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria reports Israeli strikes in Damascus countryside resulting in ‘material losses’
[IsraelTimes] Citing a military source, Syria’s state news agency says Israel struck a number of targets in the Damascus countryside.

The SANA report claims that Syrian air defenses intercepted a number of Israeli missiles and that the strikes resulted in only "material losses."
No doubt at some point more information will become available. Consider this a placeholder, dear Reader.

Update from Rudaw at 3:50 a.m. ET:
Israel strikes Syrian regime positions in Damascus

Israeli missile strikes on Tuesday targeted positions of the Syrian army in the capital Damascus, state media reported, while a war monitor said the strikes targeted 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...
weapons depots in the city.

"At approximately 2:10 am today, the Israeli enemy launched Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of military points in the Damascus countryside," Syria’s state SANA news agency said, citing a military source.

It added that Syrian air defense systems "responded to the aggression’s missiles and shot down some of them" and that the strikes inflicted material damages.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, said the strikes targeted weapons depots of Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently 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...
’s pro-Iran Hezbollah group in Yabroud, 80 kilometers north of Damascus.

"There were deaths and injuries, and the regime’s air defense tried to engage the Israeli missiles but was unsuccessful in preventing them from achieving their goals," the monitor said.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-03-19 2024-03-19 00:51|| || Front Page|| [89 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran Proxies 

#1 Israel denies responsibility for material losses - "these were caused by secondary explosions.".
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-03-19 02:05||   2024-03-19 02:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Material or materiel?
Posted by Ululating Platypus 2024-03-19 20:34||   2024-03-19 20:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Material.
They done blowed up a fabric store.
Posted by SteveS 2024-03-19 20:41||   2024-03-19 20:41|| Front Page Top

#4 The material is war matériel.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-03-19 22:25||   2024-03-19 22:25|| Front Page Top

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