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4 Hezbollah members killed in strikes near Syria-Iraq border UPDATE: among 23 total Iran catspaws toes up

2023-12-31

[IsraelTimes] Airstrikes target convoy, weapons depot in Boukamal after pro-Iran militia attack on US military base in Erbil; US denies it conducted defensive strikes; Aleppo hit in alleged Israeli strike

Three early Saturday morning ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in eastern Syria near a strategic border crossing with Iraq killed four Hezbollah ~~bandidos~~ bully boyz and two other Iran-backed krazed killers, Iraqi militia groups said. Hezbollah, a Lebanese terror group and an Iranian proxy, on Saturday confirmed the deaths of four of its members, saying they were killed "on the road to Jerusalem," without elaborating further. The strikes targeted an eight-truck convoy, destroying at least four trucks, said sources who have contacts with Syrian and Iraqi border officials. The officials said three buildings used by one of the Iranian-backed militia groups were also targeted.

A US military official said the US did not conduct any defensive strikes overnight.

“Wudn’t us!”

The strikes on the border region of Boukamal came hours after an umbrella group of Iran-backed Iraqi murderous Moslems — known as the Islamic Resistance® in Iraq — claimed an attack on a US military base in the city of Erbil in northern Iraq.

The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq, a loose formation of gangs affiliated with the Hashed al-Shaabi (also known as Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces or PMF), itself a coalition of former paramilitary forces integrated into Iraq’s regular armed forces, has claimed over a hundred attacks on US positions in Iraq and eastern Syria since the onset of the Israel-Hamas
Hamas

...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
war on October 7, when Hamas-led ~~bandidos~~ bully boyz rampaged through southern communities massacring some 1,200 people and kidnapping 240 people to the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

The group of militias has also claimed attacks on Israel, including on Thursday when an apparent explosive-laden drone believed to have been launched from Syria crashed in the southern Golan Heights. The unmanned aerial vehicle crashed near the moshav of Eliad in northern Israel, causing no injuries but some damage to a number of structures.

Also Saturday, Syrian media outlets reported an alleged Israeli airstrike in the Aleppo area in northern Syria in the afternoon.mSyria’s state-run SANA news agency, citing a military source, said "material losses" were caused by the alleged Israeli airstrike on Aleppo. Images circulating on social media show large plumes of smoke in the area.

The pro-government Sham FM radio said air defenses engaged the strike over Aleppo International Airport.

Earlier Saturday, the Israeli army did confirm strikes in Syria after two rockets fired from the country fell in the Golan Heights.

"Following the report regarding sirens sounding in northern Israel, a short while ago two launches that were identified crossing from Syria fell in an open area," the army said Friday. "The IDF is striking the sources of fire."

The army also said it struck "terror infrastructure" belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, including a launch site used by the terror group, following a number of cross-border attacks earlier Friday.

In Saturday’s strikes in eastern Syria, the Iraqi militias said the two other fatalities were Syrian. Another two were maimed, they added.

However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits...
a local commander with Hashed al-Shaabi denied that any of the groups’ fighters deployed near the Syrian borders had been killed or maimed.

The UK-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the krazed killers’ convoy targeted had arrived from Iraq to Syria as well as a location where a militia affiliated with Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was training. It added that the strikes killed nine people, three Syrians and six people from other nationalities. The organization, run by a single person, has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of false and inaccurate reporting.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible...
an activist collective that covers news in the area, Deir Ezzor 24, said the airstrikes hit two krazed killer posts and a weapons warehouse that it says was recently stocked with rocket launchers and munitions.

Fighters allied with Iran, including Hezbollah, now hold sway in vast areas in eastern, southern and northwestern Syria and in several suburbs around the capital.

A tally by US military officials has counted over 100 attacks against its troops in Iraq and Syria since October 17. Most of the attacks have been claimed by the Islamic Resistance® in Iraq. Washington has warned that it will respond against Iran-backed militia positions following the surge of attacks over the past two months.

US President Joe Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
last week ordered the US military to carry out strikes on Iranian-backed Iraqi groups following a rocket attack that maimed three US troops.

The spike in tension has put Baghdad in a delicate situation. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
i has tried to ease the strain between the krazed killer groups that helped him reach power and the US where Iraq’s foreign reserves are housed.

The Boukamal region in Deir el-Zour, Syria, along the Iraqi border, has been a strategic area for Iran-backed murderous Moslems after it was taken back from the hard boy 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 in 2019. US coalition forces have conducted strikes targeting convoys there prior to recent tensions.

Monitor claims 23 fighters killed in ‘Israeli’ strikes in eastern Syria

[IsraelTimes] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims 23 pro-Iran fighters were killed Saturday in eastern Syria, saying “Israel” likely carried out the attack.

The monitor says five Syrians, four from Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, six Iraqis and eight Iranians, were killed in at least nine pre-dawn air strikes near the Iraqi border.

It reports the strikes targeted military positions in Albu Kamal and its surroundings in Deir Ezzor province, adding that a weapons shipment from Iraq and an ammunition warehouse were also hit.

The Observatory, which says it relies on sources inside Syria, has been accused in the past of inflating or inventing casualty numbers. Funding for the monitor, run by a single person in Britain, is unclear.

The Observatory also claims that four foreign fighters were killed in strikes on Aleppo’s international airport. The attack was widely attributed to Israel.

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