Israeli airstrikes in Syria are becoming increasingly common, with two over the weekend killing at least 15 people. They were described as “Iran-backed” fighters, though indications are that they were overwhelmingly Iraqis, not Iranians.
Saturday’s attack in Sweida killed six people, four of them Syrians. The nationality of the other two weren’t disclosed, but they were called Iranians in most media reports. Less than 24 hours later, Israel attacked a base in Abu Kamal.
The base in Abu Kamal gets attacked fairly regularly. At the main Syria-Iraq border crossing, this base is overwhelmingly manned by Iraqi Shi’ite militia members, who helped Syria expel ISIS from the border region. The nine killed in this strike are believed to all be Iraqis, even though press reports call them Iranians as well.
Israel tends to present its attacks against Syria as “targeting Iran,” which is why they label the victims Iranian as a matter of course. In practice, Iran has few troops in Syria, and most of the “Iranians” are just Shi’ite militia members from Iraq, Pakistan, and elsewhere.
Quds Force commander Gen. Esmail Ghaani was at the Abu Kamal base shortly before this attack. He accused Israel and the US of backing ISIS in the area, and vowed to see Iranian forces continue to resist Israel in the region.
Would someone please start bombing Tel Aviv….Is it not time for the roosters to come home and roost…so tired of the IDF terror machine.
What exactly does “Iranian backed fighters” mean? Is it like US-backed Israelis….?
Time for an eye-for-an-eye and a life-for-a-life to be exacted from Israelis.
Talk about a neighborhood where the local bully is above the law,can commit any crime because the biggest bully in the city is your big buddy. Israel should be occupied and dissolved. Then Free elections for one and all including All the Refugees!
Israel is the enemy it despises
only 15. escalation is needed to up that total. since iran is indisputably the main sponsor of terrorism in that region it stands to reason that just associating with an iranian military person is just reason to bomb them. it will continue unabated until we get control of that area.
Did you edit your comment because no one would nibble at your original trolling? The Iranian “sponsor of terrorism” was missing. You are the consummate pro.
i left out “main sponsor of terrorism “. i need to get that out there since it is the unabated truth. luckily that backward country is no match for the powers to be. what happened to that air defense system russia sold to syria. really works great. they need to get a refund.
They’re really not very good at it. The US has killed at least 20 million since WW2 so they have some serious catching up to do.
a couple of our justified bombings have gone astray. collateral damage is to be expected and accepted. sometimes the wind carries the bombs a few feet from the intended target.
Give us a break. We are the undisputed main sponsor of terrorism. We will pay or bribe “rebels”, mercenaries, war lords to do the deeds. If that is not sufficient, then we use our own special ops fellows.
Come on………….
we hire people to get the people they hire. it is a proxy war which both sides are content with.
Who is “we?”
the good guys. israel, saudi arabia and the u.s.a. vs the bad guys china, russia, iran, assad and their sponsored terrorist organizations.
Saudi Arabia? Where the money came from to finance the attack on our twin towers in New York?
We should be bombing the sh*t out of them!!!
Israel? That has nukes! And we continue to send them billions every year!!!
Please pull yourself away from Fox News. Please.
fox says cnn and cnbc are fake news. fox is fair and balanced.
You do have staying power. You’re just too damn obvious. Work on that.
it stands to reason that just associating with an iranian military person is just reason to bomb them
Say what?
https://legaldictionary.net/guilt-by-association/
guilt by association certainly applies in military circles. i’m sure not every iranian republican guard member are specifically targeted but since most of them are rotten to the core it is best to wipe them all out.
Why does guilt by association apply in “military circles”? And why does this extend to association with people who are no threat to you and I whatsoever?
So, when is Russia going to sell/give Syria S-400 missiles?
russia craves that northern portion resort area of iran for themselves. they are just hanging around hoping we defeat them and will get it awarded to them for not interfering which they only pretend to do anyway. selling weapons to syria would only slow the process as iran is next up on the docket.
How about killing the Israeli backed militias?
In plain speak Israel is making war upon Iran. And while doing so is also making war upon portions of Syria that are not alighned with US and NATO nations and their allied terrorist employees.
While most people lay all blames upon US and Israel damn near every Euro and many other nations are participating and profiting off of the US led actions.
Long lost beauty of World Court and UN nations ideals now finds them as no more than toothless and wasted prostitutes that sell their services for pocket change a flop and the titles.
We find money galore from nations thar support great causes by mouth only and produce no more thanfor those newest beautiees who are well paid to gad about talking to each other and who mouth. Peace , a d prosperity if only those ignorants would just allow their paymaters to rule them.
That is their only solution they offer to they who are deemed as being less civilized.
Lap top and data warriors with homeys in tow will talk until a nation surrenders; close the covers and say. “Problem solved” and retreat to their home nations and await their paymasters grant for the next problem solutions.
Full spectrum warfare is todays reality and even when no bullets or bombs are killing the killings of body and spirit continue by economic means.
The silence by worlds First Nations populations removed from dire dangers of peoples in third world nations is cold blood chilling.