US forces in Iraq and Syria have been attacked by rockets or drones four times since the US launched another round of airstrikes in eastern Syria on Wednesday, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
Sources told The Guardian that US forces were targeted in three separate attacks across Iraq on Thursday. The report described the attacks as the “most geographically widespread series of strikes on US assets in a single day since the Israel-Hamas conflict started.”
The Pentagon said since October 17, US forces in the region have been attacked 46 times due to President Biden’s full-throated support for Israel’s campaign in Gaza. A total of 56 American troops have been injured in the attacks.
The leader of Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, one of Iraq’s Shia militias, said Thursday that attacks on US forces would continue until there is a ceasefire in Gaza. “There will be no truce with the US occupation in Iraq unless a genuine and binding ceasefire is established in the Gaza Strip,” said Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada leader Abu Alaa al-Walai, according to Al Mayadeen.
An umbrella group of Iraqi Shia militias known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has taken credit for many of the attacks on US troops. The Pentagon says the airstrikes it launched Wednesday targeted a weapons storage facility used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its affiliates, referring to the Shia militias.
An unconfirmed report from the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said nine people were killed in the US airstrikes on Wednesday. SOHR said the strikes hit military headquarters and a weapons warehouse in eastern Syria’s Deir Ezzor province and killed nine people, including three Syrians, who were “working with Iranians.”
While Iran supports the Shia militias, it has denied any role in the attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria, and the Pentagon previously acknowledged there’s no evidence that Tehran is directing the operations.
“We escalate, you deescalate–Okay? …No? Okay, we escalate, you deescalate–Okay? …No? Okay, we escalate, you deescalate–Okay? ..No? Why is this not working? We keep escalating and they’re not deescalating! …Wait! I just found a solution. Let’s escalate again.” —-My friends, even Einstein would agree this is the exact definition of insanity.
While I agree with your sentiment, 1) that’s not the definition of insanity; and 2) Einstein never said that. Sorry, this is a big pet peeve of mine.
I believe Confucius might have been the first to have said that or perhaps H.L. Mencken?
ISIS is helping US by attacking Syria and not by attacking US or Israel.
Yes, ISIS is an Israeli and Washington proxy against Assad.. Israel openly tended their wounded.
And they gave them weapons to fight Syrian army…!
It would be analytically helpful to see a map of this activity.
“The report described the attacks as the “most geographically widespread series of strikes on US assets in a single day since the Israel-Hamas conflict started.””
“most geographically widespread…”
That’s Pentagonese for “We’re spread too thin.”
Also, “ah f*ck it, we will just spray the territory with bombs, that ought to do it”
Us wailing about “Iran”; “Iran backed”; “Iran supported”, “Iran supplied” has been going on for over 20 years, yet there has never been a single ounce of proof provided. The US NEEDS Iran, if for no other reason than for us to blame all our failures, past present and future on; since we are perfect, and do eveything right, there must be something sinister out there thwarting our perfection.
Coming up next; Iran responsible for global warming; Iran responsible for COVID-19; Iran responsible for the opioid epidemic; Iran responsible for the failure of the NY Yankees.
Every politician or military officer or government official who so much as mentions “Iran” immediately loses all credibility.
They are the postdoctoral of DC Lie School…!
They blame Iran to hide the truth. The US military still has occupation forces in Iraq despite years of objections by the Iraqis and their government.
As I have said before the US Military are like rats and roaches. Once in they never go away.
After WWII, we did not leave Germany, Japan, Philippines.
Viet Nam lasted 10 years. Afghanistan longer.Iraq was totally destroyed over years because of invasions and destruction of their infrastructure.
They’re not wanted in Syria either but there is oil to be stolen in both cases.
uncle sam doesn’t even pretend that is not the motive
The primary motive is to prevent Syria from using the income from selling its oil to rebuild.
Maybe, but the U.S. also steals as much oil and other resources as it can. Either way, the U.S. has no business in that part of the world, and their attack on Syria and theft of its oil and wheat couldn’t be more immoral.
I agree, but I think it’s important to understand the details of how the Satanic U.S. “government” operates. I believe the U.S. “government” would prefer its critics to attribute it’s immoral, illegal and unconstitutional behavior to factors such as “greed” or trying to “preserve the petrodollar,” etc.; motivations which are much more “understandable” (in a worldly sense) and “acceptable” to the average person than as example of the implementation of the Satanic dictum of rising to the top of the world not by your own merits but by bringing everything and everyone else down. IOW the Satanists that run the U.S. “government” seek to destroy their way to the top and stay there by continuous destruction.
They call themselves Christians, not Satanists. That’s the problem. Christianity and Islam are pure evil. At least Jesus seemed pretty cool, but his teachings have been so perverted that he wouldn’t recognize them.
Trump said it on camera when he was president, pretty hard to walk that back when everyone knows it’s true.
Iran has ben turned into the bogeyman we were told to fear as children by the warmongers in the Pentagon and out two corrupt political parties.
Never mind we back and have backed some of the most sinister leaders and organizations on the face of the earth, and continue to do so.
You mean like the U.S.? Doesn’t get any more sinister than that.
When Iran detonates a nuke,and uses mines and speedboats to close the gulf, people throughout the world will go hungry and starve. Iran has made clear its intent to destroy Israel,trains its armies around a mockup of the dome of the rock,massed Hezbollah with 100,000+ missiles,murders Bahai,kills a woman if a lock of hair shows, oppressed Bahai and Kurds. Great people.
Iran does not have any nukes. they have stated for the record many times that they do not want any. and i bet that if they actually did want one then Israel would probably sell them one out the back door.
because that’s just who Israel is.
You bet wrong. They will test detonate a nuke when it suits them.
And? They are surrounded by nuclear powers; Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Israel. What right do we have to deny them a weapon all their neighbors have? MAYBE if we forced Israel to give up theirs, and hadn’t looked the other way when Pakistan built theirs, we might have a case for Iran to disarm; but the idea that a country should sit by, defenseless, while their enemy (and Israel IS their enemy; has done plenty of anti-Iranian activities, including the murders of Iranian citizens on Iranian soil) has the power to destroy them. The world doesn’t work that way, and no one should be surprised.
I couldn’t oppose nuclear weapons more strongly & unequivocally, but a nuclear power has no business telling another country that it can’t have nukes. Get rid of all the damn things, but until then, no hypocrisy.
The US needs Iran?
The US had Iraq attack Iran, and Iran won.
The US overthrew Iran’s government, and later Iran won.
Then the US invaded Iraq, and Iran won.
The US arranged for attacks on Syria, and Iran won.
Now the US has Israel attacking Gaza, and Iran is winning again.
A big win: The US arranged the Abraham Accords, Israel & Saudi, but now Iran wins ties with all Arab countries including Saudi.
Sounds like the U.S. is batting 100%, hard to do even if you try.
Only as an excuse for when things go wrong. Iran is the boogeyman.
Who cares whether something is “Iran-backed”? The U.S. has no business in the Middle East, that’s the issue. But of course empire does what it wants and doesn’t give a damn about anyone else or international law, so we have this.
Another Pentagon Lie…!
As has been proven over and over again, US Intelligence can’t distinguish between a “terrorist” and a small child; between an “Al Qaeda HQ” and a herd of goats, between an “Iraqi command center” and a civilian bomb shelter, between “scud missile launchers” and a convoy of milk trucks, between a civil airliner and an F-14. So the idea that some cretin could accurately identify an “IRGC weapons facility” is pretty far fetched.
So, is it going to take a Marine Barracks Bombing situation before we pull our people out of harm’s way? For heaven’s sake, get them out of there! They are NOT WANTED in Syria or Iraq and must leave!
These days, a Marine Barracks Bombing situation would just be used as an excuse to escalate.
maybe that’s why there are Marine Barracks there
Amen, brother. I can’t figure out how “The Iran backed Iraqi militias” are managing only to injure and not kill them? Are they using perfectly tuned smart bombs or something?
The Arab splinter-group militias have normally used the wildly inaccurate un-guided missles, which only scare the hell out of the desert rabbits.. Drones should be more accurate, and more effective than they have been..
Can’t happen soon enough. )_Pretty soon ifv we don’t get ourv asses and support for Israel over and done with there WILL be casualities in the US,perhaps bigger then 911.
And then Biden will say we’re at war and we can’t have an election.
I hope it keeps up. Perhaps our stupid leaders can then get it through their collective heads to get our troops and equipment out of there!
As much as I oppose war, this is basically self-defense.
As George Carlin, “they don’t give a f..k about you, and they don’t give a f..k about the soldiers” they’re pawns for the elites. If you want to keep your legs, arms and sanity, ‘DON’T join the military! You’re not fighting for our ‘freedom’, you’re fighting for greed, resources, ego, control, anything but freedom.
Our stupid leaders would love nothing better than to have some dead US troops, as a justification to launch more widespread attacks. Our troops in Iraq and Syria are just bait, worms on a hook, being dangled and twitched in the hopes that someone, preferably Assad, or the Russians, or the Iranians, will bite.
U.S. CIA/MIC: Russia invades a sovereign country (Ukraine). Free Ukraine!!! Repel Putin, or the European dominoes will fall!
Also U.S. CIA/MIC: Our assets in Syria (a sovereign country) are under attack!
Even-handed observer: Isn’t this pot-kettle-black hypocrisy? What the devil are you doing in Syria?
Scarfing the Oil.
Stealing the oil. Trump even said so on TV. They’re also stealing the wheat, the two things Syria had to support itself.
As much as I’m opposed to fossil fuels, I strongly oppose war, especially U.S. war for empire, and Syria is just another of many of those. I’m also opposed to stealing other people’s resources, even if those resources, like oil, shouldn’t exist in the first place.
If it’s too hot, GTF out of the kitchen…!
The same kitchen that you ( but not actually you, of course) set fire to repeatedly but the endless amount of cooking oil pouring out of the kitchen floor tempts you to stay.
Instead of “you,” I would just say the U.S. You don’t know where people commenting here live.
The Sun Never Sets on the American Empire.
Not yet.
Be patient. Nothing lasts forever.
Yes,one day the Arab world will repent for its Jew-hating,and accept Israel as a fact of life.
Yes, one day Zionists will repent for its Moslem-hating and accept a Palestinian state as a fact of life.
Corrected your post. No need to thank me.
Somebody once said in these commentaries that Biden was the Empire Politician. How true he/she was.
Biden is quickly taking us into another war that nobody knows what ramifications it wil have while taunting China with the Taiwan button.
At the rate we are going, come 2024, we will be in the same position as The Frogs Who Wished for a King in Aesop’s fable.
Well get M.F asses out of Iraq and Syria and the problem is solved . nothing but a bunch of thieving mercenaries , if it was in my power i would ELIMINATE all American forces in the M.E and else where , in fact i would ELIMINATE America .
Well, I live here and don’t particularly want to get “eliminated”, so I have to disagree with you on THAT.
But I agree we have NO BUSINESS being in the middle east, or the Pacific east of Hawaii, and definitely not in “Europe”, which has all the people, money, and industry it needs to defend itself – and all US troops should come home. Period.