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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US says a drone attack targeted its Syria base, no casualties

2022-08-16

[Jpost] The attack took place at the base near where the borders of Syria, Jordan and Iraq meet. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack.

A drone attack hit a compound run by US troops and US-backed Syrian opposition fighters in eastern Syria on Monday, with no casualties, the United States military said.

"Operation Inherent Resolve forces, in coordination with our Maghaweir al-Thowra

... in the Rantburg archives as Maghawir al-Thawra, they were previously called the New Syrian Army, founded by anti-Assad Syrian army officers in 2015 to fight ISIS...

partners, responded to an attack by multiple unmanned aerial systems in the vicinity of Al-Tanf Garrison," the US military said in a statement.

WHAT IS THE CONTEXT IN SYRIA?
Maghaweir al-Thowra is US-backed Syrian opposition fighters. The US and coalition troops are based at Al-Tanf to train Syrian forces to counter Islamic State militants.

Al Ahram adds:

It said the troops successfully engaged one of the drones preventing its impact while a second one detonated within the opposition forces' compound, ``resulting in zero casualties or reported damage.'' The other attempted dronezaps were not successful, it added.

Maj. Gen. John Brennan
...director of the CIA under the Obama administration. One of the deeper dwelling denizens of the Deep State, probably the guy who lit the match that launched the Russiagate coup attempt...
, the commander of Combined Joint Task Force, condemned the dronezap. ``Such attacks put the lives of innocent Syrian civilians at risk and undermine the significant efforts by our Partner Forces to maintain the lasting defeat of ISIS,'' he said, using an acronym for 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.

The attack occurred hours after Israeli ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on western and central Syria killed three soldiers, maimed three others and caused material damage. A Syrian opposition war monitor, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the Israeli strikes hit Syrian army positions where Iran-backed fighters are based.

Drone attacks on al-Tanf have been rare.

In October last year, U.S. officials said they believe Iran
Iran

...The nation is 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...
was behind a drone attack that month in al-Tanf saying at the time that they believe that the attacks involved as many as five drones laden with explosive charges. It said the drones hit both the U.S. side of al-Tanf garrison and the side where Syrian opposition forces stay. The October attacks came days after an Israeli airstrike on central Syria.

Posted by:Skidmark

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