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Israel says it has hit Iranian targets around the Syrian capital, Damascus.

The Israel Defense Forces say the overnight operation targeted the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, as well as Syrian air defences.

The Syrian military says it shot down most of the Israeli missiles. But a monitoring group reported that at least 11 pro-government fighters were killed.

The IDF says it acted after the Quds Force fired a rocket from Syria towards the occupied Golan Heights on Sunday.

Iran, Israel's arch-enemy, has sent thousands of military personnel to support Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the country's civil war.

Israel and Iran on collision course
What do we know about the Israeli operation?
The IDF rarely admits carrying out attacks inside Syria. But it announced the start of Monday's strikes on the Quds Force in a tweet.

A statement issued later said Israeli fighter jets had hit munition storage sites, a site located in Damascus International Airport, an Iranian intelligence site and an Iranian military training camp.

The jets also struck several Syrian military air defence batteries after dozens of surface-to-air missiles were launched "despite clear warnings", it added.

"We're operating both against Iran and against the Syrian forces that are abetting the Iranian aggression," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

"We'll strike at anyone who tried to harm us. Whoever threatens to eliminate us, bears full responsibility."

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, reported that weapons depots and positions belonging to Iranian forces and the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah, were hit.

It said at least 11 fighters, including two Syrians, were killed.

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Could spiral out of control this but can Iran afford Yemen and Syria wars?
 
MenInG said:
Could spiral out of control this but can Iran afford Yemen and Syria wars?
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Highly unlikely.

Israel has been invading Syria hitting 'targets' for years now. They are really upset because their proxy terrorists have been defeated by the Syrian army, Russia, Hezbollah and Iranian RG. Any outright war with Iran and Syria will ruin Israel. A cowardly army who were beaten badly by Hezbollah in 2006 and since only use air power to hit and run.
 
KingKhanWC said:
Highly unlikely.

Israel has been invading Syria hitting 'targets' for years now. They are really upset because their proxy terrorists have been defeated by the Syrian army, Russia, Hezbollah and Iranian RG. Any outright war with Iran and Syria will ruin Israel. A cowardly army who were beaten badly by Hezbollah in 2006 and since only use air power to hit and run.
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Accurate summary.

One of my friends is Syrian, he was very anti-Assad, I think some of his family left Syria. I asked him his position, he said he dislikes Assad but would rather Assad stay then the nation becoming another Libya.

Still quite sad though what's happened to the nation, I was watching a 2009 video, Damascus and rest of the country looked nice. Now its a ruin.
 
Israel is smarter, Iran won't be a match for it if the war keeps going, long run Iran will be feeling the heat esp with sanctions and what not.
 
Pakpak said:
Accurate summary.

One of my friends is Syrian, he was very anti-Assad, I think some of his family left Syria. I asked him his position, he said he dislikes Assad but would rather Assad stay then the nation becoming another Libya.

Still quite sad though what's happened to the nation, I was watching a 2009 video, Damascus and rest of the country looked nice. Now its a ruin.
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Syria was the most inclusive nation in the middle east. Christians, Muslims and Secular people lived together in harmony most of the time. After Libya they used the same propaganda of Assad killing his people in order to invade and openely support terrorists with finance and military hardware. Yes Assad is no angel, his family have been dictators for decades now but the nation was stable, much like Iraq and Libya. Now most of it's cities have been destroyed by this war. Syria was seen as a threat to Israel, there is no other reason for it to be attacked as it was.
 
KingKhanWC said:
Syria was the most inclusive nation in the middle east. Christians, Muslims and Secular people lived together in harmony most of the time. After Libya they used the same propaganda of Assad killing his people in order to invade and openely support terrorists with finance and military hardware. Yes Assad is no angel, his family have been dictators for decades now but the nation was stable, much like Iraq and Libya. Now most of it's cities have been destroyed by this war. Syria was seen as a threat to Israel, there is no other reason for it to be attacked as it was.
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Pretty much. Also the hypocrisy is galling. Imagine Syria hitting Tel Aviv or Iran hitting Israeli targets anywhere, the entire world would be up in arms.
 
Gabbar Singh said:
LOL at the Comical Ali style Iranian response.



https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-air-chief-were-ready-for-war-that-will-destroy-israel/
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Salahuddin first captured Syria and then went for Palestine
I’m sure there’s precedents in other times in history too


Israel only thrives when other militicism thrives too, its like batman with the joker
One religious nutcase against another

It struggled against the PLO much more than it has had with Hamas
Thankfully Iran keeps giving a lifeline to Israel
 
chacha kashmiri said:
Salahuddin first captured Syria and then went for Palestine
I’m sure there’s precedents in other times in history too


Israel only thrives when other militicism thrives too, its like batman with the joker
One religious nutcase against another

It struggled against the PLO much more than it has had with Hamas
Thankfully Iran keeps giving a lifeline to Israel
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Hamas was created by Mossad to counter secular PLO that spoke for all Palestinians incl notable Christians.
 
chacha kashmiri said:
Salahuddin first captured Syria and then went for Palestine
I’m sure there’s precedents in other times in history too


Israel only thrives when other militicism thrives too, its like batman with the joker
One religious nutcase against another

It struggled against the PLO much more than it has had with Hamas
Thankfully Iran keeps giving a lifeline to Israel
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Hamas was created by Mossad to counter secular PLO that spoke for all Palestinians incl notable Christians.

read this up: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
 
How come they always seem to miss Assad's palace? Seems strange.
 
JaDed said:
Israel is smarter, Iran won't be a match for it if the war keeps going, long run Iran will be feeling the heat esp with sanctions and what not.
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Iran doesn't seem to be even a threat, they or their proxies don't seem much more capable than Saddam Hussein was 30 years ago with his scud missiles. If Israel are telling the truth of course, they are claiming they are shooting down the odd missile launched much like they were from Hamas or other ragtag groups years ago. Nothing is quite as described I would say.
 
In the short and medium term, Israel is untouchable. Due to it's military strength, along with the backing of Uncle Sam.
However, different groups and different empires have taken turns ruling this part of the region for thousands of years. Sometimes a particular group or other has been in charge for a thousand years or more, before being forced out by another.

Apart from anything else, demographics alone is against the State of Israel under it's current guise. It can't keep on subjugating the Arab/Palestinian populations forever. In the long term, neither a single state nor a two-state solution works in Israel's favour.

As citizens of a single state solution the Arabs/Palestinians will demand/keep demanding equal rights with Jews. Under a two-state solution, no matter what is agreed initially, the separate Palestinian state will eventually demand complete independence from Israel, ie Israel not having a veto over it's economy, military, security, water resources, borders....etc.

And all of that without even allowing for the Arab Israeli's already living in Israel demanding equal rights for all Israelis, ie equal rights with Israeli Jews.

Sad to say, in the long term, it doesn't bode well for the Zionists trying to maintain their rule over the Arab/Palestinian population. Demographics will see to that. If not in the next 50 years, maybe in a 100 years. But the cycle of change of rule over this land will not stop just because the Zionists have control as of now.
 
Syrian state television reported that Israeli air strikes had hit several locations in the countryside west of the capital Damascus on Thursday.

Syrian state news agency SANA, citing a military source, said Syrian air defences had shot down "some" of the missiles fired.

It said the strikes only caused physical damage but did not specify further.

Israel has mounted frequent attacks against what it has described as Iranian targets in Syria, where Tehran-backed forces including Lebanon's Hezbollah have deployed over the last decade to support President Bashar al-Assad in Syria's war.

A pro-government allied commander denied to Reuters that Thursday's strikes had hit their positions outside Damascus.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli government.

In March, state media reported that an Israeli attack over the Syrian capital Damascus killed two civilians and left some material damage.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...sedgntp&cvid=2541d98e4cdf470fb247674f2e085205
 
The end times are near. Seems inevitable Russia will deploy some sort of nuclear weapon and Syria is a strategic prophecy
 
Israeli missile strikes building in central Damascus, five dead

An Israeli rocket strike early on Sunday hit a building in central Damascus's Kafr Sousa neighbourhood near a large, heavily guarded security complex close to Iranian installations, killing five people, witnesses and officials said.

The rare, targeted strike damaged several buildings in the densely populated district close to Omayyad square in the heart of the capital, where multi-storey security buildings are located within residential areas.

A police official said on state media that there were several casualties and injured.

An Israeli military spokesperson declined to comment.

Citing a military source, state media said Israel had carried out air strikes targeting several areas in the capital shortly after midnight, causing five deaths and 15 injuries among civilians, and damage to several residential buildings.

"It caused damage to several civilian homes and material damage to a number of neighbourhoods in Damascus and its vicinity," the army said in a statement.

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A combustible mix of religious dictatorship in Iran, tyrant in Syria and aggressive hard-right populist in Israel. No good will come of this.
 
Israel launches missile attack on Syria’s Aleppo airport: Gov’t
Syrian defence ministry said Aleppo airport was damaged by missiles in what is the third Israeli attack in six months.

An Israeli air attack has hit Syria’s Aleppo airport causing some “material damage” in the second strike on the facility this month, the Syrian defence ministry has said, according to news reports.

Marking the third attack on Aleppo International Airport in six months, Israel launched “a number of missiles from the Mediterranean Sea, west of the coastal city of Latakia, at 3:55 am” (00:55 GMT), the defence ministry said early on Wednesday in a statement on Facebook.

Syrian state news agency SANA, quoting an unnamed military official, did not mention if the strike caused any deaths or injuries. The report said that Israeli warplanes fired the missiles toward Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and once its commercial centre, while flying over the Mediterranean, the Associated Press reported.

The Israeli military declined to comment on the latest attack, Reuters news agency reported.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/22/israel-launches-missile-attack-on-syrias-aleppo-airport
 
This is Modi and Indias ultimate desire. Tk bomb Pakistan when they want with the support of uncle amreeka...luckily for him our own have decided to do the work for him..
 
US strikes Iran-backed group in Syria after deadly attack on coalition base
A US contractor was killed when a suspected Iranian-made drone struck base in Syria’s north-east

The United States has carried out airstrikes on an Iran-backed group in Syria, after a US contractor was killed when a suspected Iranian-made drone attacked a coalition base in the country’s north-east.

Five US service members and one other US contractor were wounded in the attack on the coalition base on Thursday, the Pentagon said. Two of the wounded service members were treated on site, while three others and the injured contractor were transported to medical facilities in Iraq.

In a statement released later on Thursday, the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said US Central Command forces retaliated against the attack with “precision airstrikes” against facilities in eastern Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

The defence department said the intelligence community had determined the unmanned aerial vehicle used in the attack on the coalition base was of Iranian origin.

“The airstrikes were conducted in response to today’s attack as well as a series of recent attacks against coalition forces in Syria” by groups affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard, Austin said.

Overnight, videos on social media purported to show explosions in Syria’s Deir Ez-Zor, a strategic province that borders Iraq and contains oilfields.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...group-in-syria-after-attack-on-coalition-base
 
A drone attack on a Syrian military academy in Homs has killed at least 78 people, a monitoring group says.

Nine civilians were among those who died when drones carrying explosives targeted a graduation ceremony attended by cadets' families, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

The army blamed terrorist groups backed by known international forces.

There was no immediate claim from the rebels and jihadists battling the government in the country's civil war.

The drone attack is believed to have been launched from opposition-held areas north-west of Homs.

Later, first responders from the White Helmets reported that five civilians had been killed in intense government artillery and missile strikes on several cities, towns and villages in the opposition stronghold of Idlib province.

Syria's state news agency, Sana, cited a statement from the General Command of the Armed Forces as saying that several drones carrying explosives targeted the Homs military academy just after the afternoon graduation ceremony had ended.

The aggression resulted in the death of several civilians and military personnel in addition the injury of dozens of the invited families, as well as several participating students, it added, without giving any figures.

The statement said the armed forces considers this act an unprecedented criminal one and affirms that it will respond with full force and determination to these terrorist groups wherever they are.

A man who had earlier helped set up decorations at the site told Reuters news agency: After the ceremony, people went down to the courtyard and the explosives hit. We don't know where it came from, and corpses littered the ground.

The Syrian Observatory, a UK-based monitoring group that has a network of sources on the ground, said most of those killed were military personnel and that a child of an officer and a woman were among the civilian fatalities.

Another 140 people were injured, many of them seriously, it added.

The group also reported that Syria's defense minister attended the graduation ceremony but that he left minutes before the attack.

Source: BBC
 
The Israeli military said on Wednesday its warplanes struck Syrian army infrastructure overnight in response to rocket fire from the country.

“Last night, a number of launches from Syria toward the southern Golan Heights were identified,” the military said in a statement.

“In response, IDF (Israeli) fighter jets struck military infrastructure belonging to the Syrian regime in the area of Daraa overnight.”

It did not offer details of any casualties or damage caused by the strikes on southern Syria.

Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and later annexed it in a move never recognized by the international community.

The military rarely comments on individual strikes in Syria but has said repeatedly it will not allow Iran, which backs Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, to expand its presence.

Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes during more than a decade of civil war in Syria, primarily targeting Iran-backed forces as well as Syrian army positions.

Such attacks have intensified since the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas began on October 7.

On Monday, Israeli strikes in Syria killed eight people, including pro-Iran fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said.

Violence has also flared on the Israel-Lebanon border, with near daily exchanges of fire between Israel and Hamas’s Iran-backed ally Hezbollah.

On Wednesday, the Israeli army said its artillery fired at several locations in southern Lebanon, without providing details.

More than 200 people, most of them Hezbollah fighters, have been killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon since October 7, according to an AFP tally.

On the Israeli side of the border, nine soldiers and six civilians have been killed, according to Israeli officials.

Source: Al Arabiya

 
Drone attack kills six Kurdish-led fighters at US base in east Syria

A drone attack on the largest US military base in Syria has killed at least six allied Kurdish-led fighters.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said its commando academy at the al-Omar oil field in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour was hit in the early hours of Monday.

It accused Iran-backed militias of launching the drone from a nearby area controlled by Syrian government forces.

An Iran-backed militia umbrella group claimed it attacked the base on Sunday.

There was no comment or reports of casualties from the US military, which has about 800 troops in Syria to combat the Islamic State (IS) group.

It was the second incident since the US conducted strikes against Iran-backed groups in Iraq and Syria over the weekend in response to a deadly drone attack on a base in Jordan. The Pentagon confirmed to the BBC that there had been a rocket attack at its Mission Support Site Euphrates in Syria on Saturday, but there were no casualties or damages in the incident.

The SDF - which has controlled much of north-eastern Syria since defeating IS there in 2019, with the support of a US-led global coalition - said in a statement that six of its "commando fighters" were killed when a one-way attack drone targeted their training academy around midnight on Monday.

"Iranian-backed militias used the Syrian regime-controlled areas in Deir al-Zour as a staging ground for the terrorist attack," it alleged.

The SDF condemned the attack and asserted its "right to respond appropriately to the source".

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, reported that seven SDF commandos were killed and 18 injured in what it said was the 108th militia attack on US bases in the country since mid-October.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) - an umbrella group of Iraqi militias believed to be armed, trained and funded by Iran - said it carried out a drone attack on Sunday "against the US occupation base in al-Omar oil field".


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Drone attack kills six Kurdish-led fighters at US base in east Syria

A Kurdish-led force blamed Iran-backed militias for the strike on a training centre in Deir al-Zour.
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Drone that killed US troops in Jordan likely evaded radars: Report

The drone that killed three U.S. troops at a base in Jordan late last month was likely undetected as it approached too low in the sky, with no air defense system on site that could down it, according to a new report.

U.S. Central Command’s initial assessment of the attack found that the Iranian-made drone was probably missed “due to its low flight path,” a U.S. defense official told The Washington Post.

The Tower 22 base where the attack happened doesn’t have large air defense systems, and the official said the installation didn’t possess weapons that can “kill” aerial threats, such as drones and missiles, with only electronic warfare systems meant to disable or disrupt their flight.

The new assessment appears to contradict earlier reports that the enemy drone was mistaken for an American one returning to the base about the same time, which let it pass unchallenged through defenses and hit a troop barracks at the small installation. Three service members were killed and more than 40 were injured, including eight who had to be medically evacuated.

Asked about the findings later on Tuesday, Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said CENTCOM is still in the midst of its review on the deadly attack and could not comment until it was finished.

“We’re still assessing exactly what happened in that attack. And of course, CENTCOM and the [Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin] will determine if there’s any change or needs to be any change to our defensive posture at Tower 22 or any other base in the region. But I just don’t have more for you on that specific attack,” she told reporters.
She also would not say how many bases in the Middle East that house U.S. troops do not have air defense systems that can shoot down attack drones, citing operational security.

Quickly after the attack in Jordan, CENTCOM announced a review to determine how the drone was able to evade air defenses and slip through.

“[Revealing] our air defenses, where they’re located and how many bases have what, I think that just wouldn’t be good for our own operational security and our force protection,” Singh said.

The attack on Tower 22 marks the first time Iran-backed militias in Syria and Iraq have killed U.S. service members since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October. The fighting, which includes a brutal air campaign in the Gaza Strip that has reportedly killed more than 27,500 Palestinians, has inflamed the region.


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Russia slams 'unacceptable Israeli' strikes on Syria​


Russia has condemned what it said were "completely unacceptable" Israeli strikes on Syria.

Israel carried out its deadliest strikes in months on northern Syria's Aleppo province early this morning and said it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, stepping up its campaign against Iran's proxies in parallel with its war in Gaza.

Israel has ramped up airstrikes in Syria against both the Lebanese Hezbollah militia and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) since the Iranian-backed Palestinian faction Hamas's attack on Israel on 7 October, and in recent days its pilots have resumed regular practice for "deep" raids into Lebanon.

Russia is Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's key international backer and intervened on his behalf in a bloody civil war.

"Such aggressive actions against the Syrian Arab Republic, which constitute a flagrant violation of the country's sovereignty and the basic norms of international law, are categorically unacceptable," Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.

"We strongly condemn these provocative acts of force, which carry extremely dangerous consequences in terms of a sharp deterioration of the situation in the zone of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict," she added.

Iran and its proxies have entrenched themselves across Syria, including around Aleppo and the capital Damascus.

The Israeli military said it had killed Ali Abed Akhsan Naim, deputy commander of Hezbollah's rocket and missiles unit, in an airstrike in the area of Bazouriye in Lebanon.

It said he was one of the Iranian-backed militia's leaders in heavy-warhead rocket fire and said he was responsible for conducting and planning attacks against Israeli civilians.

Israel and Hezbollah have also been trading fire across Lebanon's southern border in the biggest escalation since they fought a month-long war in 2006, as Hezbollah has tried to show its support for Hamas with volleys of rockets into Israel.

About a dozen Israeli troops and half a dozen civilians have been killed in northern Israel, while nearly 270 Hezbollah fighters and 50 civilians including medics, civilians and journalists have been killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon.

Israel has repeatedly struck international airports in both Damascus and Aleppo over the years to disrupt weapons flows to Iran's allies in the region, but strikes since 7 October have been deadlier and prompted Iran to withdraw some of its top officers from Syria.

Syria's defence ministry said Israeli strikes hit several areas in the southeastern part of Aleppo province around 22.45pm Irish time, killing a number of civilians and military personnel.

It said the airstrikes coincided with drone attacks carried out from Idlib and western rural Aleppo that the ministry described as having been conducted by "terrorist organisations" against civilians in Aleppo and its surroundings.

The Israeli military declined comment. In a post on X, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Israel's attacks on Syria were a "blatant and desperate attempt" to expand the war, without saying if there were Iranian casualties.

Three security sources told Reuters that 33 Syrians and five Hezbollah fighters had been killed in the strikes. One of the Hezbollah fighters was a local field commander whose brother had been killed in an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon in November, one of the sources said.

It represented the single highest death toll in Israeli strikes on Syria since 7 October.

An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon on Friday killed a Hezbollah fighter, security sources in Lebanon said.

The head of the IRGC's Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, met Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut in February to discuss the risk if Israel were to launch a full offensive against Hezbollah, and received an assurance that the group did not want to drag Iran into war with Israel, sources have said.

Hezbollah has said it would stop firing into Israel if a ceasefire was reached in Gaza. Israeli and US officials, however, have said a ceasefire in Gaza would not automatically extend to Lebanon.

Israeli Air Force pilots have stepped up practising long-range strikes across the northern border as normal training activities have resumed in recent weeks after being suspended at the start of the Gaza war, the military said this week.

"The training program will focus on increasing the IAF's readiness for war in the northern arena and in other arenas during prolonged combat," it said in a statement.

The drills include rehearsing for "massive, long-range strikes, flying deep into enemy territory", it added.

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Israel carried out its deadliest strikes in months on northern Syria's Aleppo province early this morning and said it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, stepping up its campaign against Iran's proxies in parallel with its war in Gaza.
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Israeli air strike destroys Iranian consulate in Syria - state media

An Israeli strike has destroyed the Iranian consulate building in Syria's capital, Damascus, killing and wounding several people, Syrian authorities say.

A senior Revolutionary Guards commander Brig-Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi was among the dead, Iranian state media reported.

Pictures showed smoke and dust rising from the multi-storey building, which was next to the Iranian embassy on a highway in the western Mezzeh district.

The Israeli military said it did not comment on foreign media reports.

The Syrian defence ministry said Israeli aircraft targeted the consulate building from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights at about 17:00 local time (14:00 GMT).

Syrian air defences shot down some of the missiles they launched, but other missiles made it through and "destroyed the entire building, killing and injuring everyone inside", the ministry added.

The ministry said work was under way to recover the bodies and rescue the wounded from underneath the rubble, without giving any information about their identities.

Iranian state TV reported that those killed included Brig-Gen Zahedi, whom it identified as a senior commander of the Revolutionary Guards' overseas operations arm, the Quds Force. Several diplomats were among the dead, state TV said.



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Iran accuses Israel of killing generals in Syria strike

Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi is among those killed in an attack in Damascus.
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Cricket Warrior said:
Israeli air strike destroys Iranian consulate in Syria - state media

An Israeli strike has destroyed the Iranian consulate building in Syria's capital, Damascus, killing and wounding several people, Syrian authorities say.

A senior Revolutionary Guards commander Brig-Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi was among the dead, Iranian state media reported.

Pictures showed smoke and dust rising from the multi-storey building, which was next to the Iranian embassy on a highway in the western Mezzeh district.

The Israeli military said it did not comment on foreign media reports.

The Syrian defence ministry said Israeli aircraft targeted the consulate building from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights at about 17:00 local time (14:00 GMT).

Syrian air defences shot down some of the missiles they launched, but other missiles made it through and "destroyed the entire building, killing and injuring everyone inside", the ministry added.

The ministry said work was under way to recover the bodies and rescue the wounded from underneath the rubble, without giving any information about their identities.

Iranian state TV reported that those killed included Brig-Gen Zahedi, whom it identified as a senior commander of the Revolutionary Guards' overseas operations arm, the Quds Force. Several diplomats were among the dead, state TV said.



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Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi is among those killed in an attack in Damascus.
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Iran promises 'harsh' response to strike on consulate in Syria - with top commanders among seven killed​

Iran has blamed Israel for a deadly air strike on its consulate in Syria, in which two of its senior military commanders were killed.

Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) elite Quds Force, died in the explosion, which destroyed the Iranian consulate building in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, a deputy commander in the Quds Force, was also killed, along with five other officers, according to the IRGC.

They are the most senior leaders of the force to be killed since the US assassination of Qassem Soleimani in Iraq in January 2020.

The IRGC blamed Israel for the strike, as did Iran's foreign ministry, which labelled it an "abhorrent" and "brutal" attack.

Tehran's ambassador to Damascus, Hossein Akbari, who was not injured in the strike, promised the Iranian response would be "harsh".

Israel declined to comment on the incident. The White House also did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

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Iran promises 'harsh' response to strike on consulate in Syria - with top commanders among seven killed

Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, a deputy commander, were killed in the strike.
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hassan918 said:

Iran promises 'harsh' response to strike on consulate in Syria - with top commanders among seven killed​

Iran has blamed Israel for a deadly air strike on its consulate in Syria, in which two of its senior military commanders were killed.

Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) elite Quds Force, died in the explosion, which destroyed the Iranian consulate building in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, a deputy commander in the Quds Force, was also killed, along with five other officers, according to the IRGC.

They are the most senior leaders of the force to be killed since the US assassination of Qassem Soleimani in Iraq in January 2020.

The IRGC blamed Israel for the strike, as did Iran's foreign ministry, which labelled it an "abhorrent" and "brutal" attack.

Tehran's ambassador to Damascus, Hossein Akbari, who was not injured in the strike, promised the Iranian response would be "harsh".

Israel declined to comment on the incident. The White House also did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

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Iran promises 'harsh' response to strike on consulate in Syria - with top commanders among seven killed

Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, a deputy commander, were killed in the strike.
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Iran has made a similar promise when their General Qassem Sulemani was killed. Its been 4 years and still crickets.
 
More talk from the Iranians all mouth and no trousers

They pushed hamas into a disastrous war which has more or less put the nail in the coffin for Palestine.

And now Israel toys with hezbollah and Iran attacking and killing them every other day and Iranians are too scared to go the next step probably bottled it after seeing Israel response in gaza .
 
hassan918 said:

Iran promises 'harsh' response to strike on consulate in Syria - with top commanders among seven killed​

Iran has blamed Israel for a deadly air strike on its consulate in Syria, in which two of its senior military commanders were killed.

Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) elite Quds Force, died in the explosion, which destroyed the Iranian consulate building in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, a deputy commander in the Quds Force, was also killed, along with five other officers, according to the IRGC.

They are the most senior leaders of the force to be killed since the US assassination of Qassem Soleimani in Iraq in January 2020.

The IRGC blamed Israel for the strike, as did Iran's foreign ministry, which labelled it an "abhorrent" and "brutal" attack.

Tehran's ambassador to Damascus, Hossein Akbari, who was not injured in the strike, promised the Iranian response would be "harsh".

Israel declined to comment on the incident. The White House also did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

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Iran promises 'harsh' response to strike on consulate in Syria - with top commanders among seven killed

Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, a deputy commander, were killed in the strike.
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All talk but no show. Iran should have responded there and then. WHat are they waiting for? 10-20 more attacks before they respond somehow?
 
Pakistan strongly condemns the attack on the Consular Section of the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria.

We offer our deepest condolences to the families of the victims and the people and the Government of Iran.

The attack is an unacceptable violation of the sovereignty of Syria and undermines its stability and security. It is a violation of international law and the UN Charter. Attacks against diplomats or diplomatic facilities are also illegal under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961.

The irresponsible act of the Israeli forces is a major escalation in an already volatile region. We call on the UN Security Council to prevent Israel from its adventurism in the region and its illegal acts attacking its neighbours and targeting foreign diplomatic facilities.

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mazkhan said:
More talk from the Iranians all mouth and no trousers

They pushed hamas into a disastrous war which has more or less put the nail in the coffin for Palestine.

And now Israel toys with hezbollah and Iran attacking and killing them every other day and Iranians are too scared to go the next step probably bottled it after seeing Israel response in gaza .
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Moral of the story, Israel will crush anyone that threatens their existence.

Feedback given to me by my Christian Arab friend:

When the land of Philistine was split, the good and major chunk of land was given to the muslims, aka Jordan. Jews got the swamp land, which was worth nothing and why do I get the feeling if the land was still a swampish dump there would not be much who ha or crying over it today.

Jews took that swampish dump and with their dedication, hard work and determination they made it into a land of envy. On the opposite side, look what the muslim arabs have done in Jordan with better and bigger land, almost nothing.

Jews will keep their land, no amount of Ummah, fighting or threatening them will yield any success, you may end up losing more land to the Jews as a result....

Time to let it go and move on....
 
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday condemned a deadly air strike blamed on Israel against his country’s consular annex in Damascus, saying the “cowardly crime will not go unanswered”.

“After repeated defeats and failures against the faith and will of the Resistance Front fighters, the Zionist regime has put blind assassinations on its agenda in the struggle to save itself,” Raisi said on his office’s website.

“Day by day, we have witnessed the strengthening of the Resistance Front and the disgust and hatred of free nations towards the illegitimate nature of (Israel). This cowardly crime will not go unanswered.”

The air strike on the Iranian embassy’s five-storey annex killed seven members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, which runs Iran’s overseas military operations.

Among the dead, were Brigadier Generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, both senior commanders in the Quds Force, Guards’ foreign operations arm.

Zahedi, 63, had held a succession of commands in the force in a Guards career spanning more than four decades.

Israel declined to comment on the strike.

The UN Security Council was to discuss the deadly strike later on Tuesday at a meeting requested by Syrian ally Russia.

“Iran reserves its legitimate and inherent right under international law and the United Nations Charter to take a decisive response to such reprehensible acts,” Iran’s mission to the world body said.

It warned the strike could “potentially ignite more conflict involving other nations” and called on the Security Council “to condemn this unjustified criminal act. “

China condemns Israel strike on Iranian consular annex in Syria
China said it condemned the Israeli air strikes.

“China condemns the attack,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said.

“The security of diplomatic institutions cannot be violated, and Syria’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity should be respected,” he said.

“The current situation in the Middle East is turbulent and we oppose any actions that lead to an escalation of tensions,” Wang said.

Source: AFP News
 
US on high alert for Iran threat in region after Israeli strike in Syria

The United States is on high alert and preparing for a possible attack by Iran targeting Israeli or American assets in the region in response to Israel's strike on the Iranian embassy in Syria, a U.S. official said on Friday.

"We're definitely at a high state of vigilance," the official said in confirming a CNN report that said an attack could come in the next week.

Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's embassy in Damascus on Monday in a strike that killed an Iranian military commander and marked a major escalation in Israel's war with its regional adversaries.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has said that seven Iranian military advisers died in the strike, including Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in its Quds Force, which is an elite foreign espionage and paramilitary arm.

Iran has said it reserves the right "to take a decisive response."

U.S. President Joe Biden discussed the threat from Iran in a phone call on Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.


Reuters
 
Cricket Warrior said:
Israeli air strike destroys Iranian consulate in Syria - state media

An Israeli strike has destroyed the Iranian consulate building in Syria's capital, Damascus, killing and wounding several people, Syrian authorities say.

A senior Revolutionary Guards commander Brig-Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi was among the dead, Iranian state media reported.

Pictures showed smoke and dust rising from the multi-storey building, which was next to the Iranian embassy on a highway in the western Mezzeh district.

The Israeli military said it did not comment on foreign media reports.

The Syrian defence ministry said Israeli aircraft targeted the consulate building from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights at about 17:00 local time (14:00 GMT).

Syrian air defences shot down some of the missiles they launched, but other missiles made it through and "destroyed the entire building, killing and injuring everyone inside", the ministry added.

The ministry said work was under way to recover the bodies and rescue the wounded from underneath the rubble, without giving any information about their identities.

Iranian state TV reported that those killed included Brig-Gen Zahedi, whom it identified as a senior commander of the Revolutionary Guards' overseas operations arm, the Quds Force. Several diplomats were among the dead, state TV said.



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Iran accuses Israel of killing generals in Syria strike

Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi is among those killed in an attack in Damascus.
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Iran’s foreign minister inaugurated the country’s new consulate in Damascus on Monday, a week after a deadly strike blamed on Israel destroyed the former premises, sending regional tensions skyrocketing.

Source: DUNYA
 
Romali_rotti said:
Moral of the story, Israel will crush anyone that threatens their existence.

Feedback given to me by my Christian Arab friend:

When the land of Philistine was split, the good and major chunk of land was given to the muslims, aka Jordan. Jews got the swamp land, which was worth nothing and why do I get the feeling if the land was still a swampish dump there would not be much who ha or crying over it today.

Jews took that swampish dump and with their dedication, hard work and determination they made it into a land of envy. On the opposite side, look what the muslim arabs have done in Jordan with better and bigger land, almost nothing.

Jews will keep their land, no amount of Ummah, fighting or threatening them will yield any success, you may end up losing more land to the Jews as a result....

Time to let it go and move on....
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Many of your posts have these anecdotes from seemingly deranged friends.
 
Middle East latest: Rockets 'fired towards US military base in Syria'

At least five rockets are launched from the Iraqi town of Zummar towards a US military base in northeastern Syria, security sources tell Reuters. The attack against American forces is the first since February, when Iranian-backed groups in Iraq stopped targeting US troops.


SKY News
 
Cricket Warrior said:
Middle East latest: Rockets 'fired towards US military base in Syria'

At least five rockets are launched from the Iraqi town of Zummar towards a US military base in northeastern Syria, security sources tell Reuters. The attack against American forces is the first since February, when Iranian-backed groups in Iraq stopped targeting US troops.


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Syria seems to have become a test playground for world powers.
I feel for the common people of Syria, everyone is using them and no one values or gives two hoots about them.
 
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The Israel media and an Israeli rescue official have reported that at least nine people were killed by a rocket attack in a town in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, in what would be the deadliest attack on an Israeli target since the fighting with the Lebanese group Hezbollah began.

Hezbollah quickly denied any role in the strike, which the Israeli military blamed on the group. The attack on a football pitch raises fears of an all-out war between the foes, who have been exchanging cross-border fire since the start of the war in Gaza.

Source: Al Jazeera
 
10 Israelis killed in the Golan Heights. When you keep punching somebody on the ground, don't start complaining when they get a blow in.
 
Markhor said:
10 Israelis killed in the Golan Heights. When you keep punching somebody on the ground, don't start complaining when they get a blow in.
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It appears it was some sort of malfunction.

Hezbollah denied it.

Israelis think Iron Doom malfunctioned and fired.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
It appears it was some sort of malfunction.

Hezbollah denied it.

Israelis think Iron Doom malfunctioned and fired.
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Looks like all the victims are Arabic speaking Druze.

No end in sight. Netanyahu wants the killing to continue for as long as possible so he can retain power. A ceasefire was doable months ago.
 
Markhor said:
Looks like all the victims are Arabic speaking Druze.

No end in sight. Netanyahu wants the killing to continue for as long as possible so he can retain power. A ceasefire was doable months ago.
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Yeah. It doesn't seem like Netanyahu wants the war to stop. He is making excuses to prolong the war.
 
It's very much unlike Hezbollah to deny something like this, usually they take pride in such an attack. I think this is stitch up by Nethenyahu and co. to strike Lebanon.
 
shortbread said:
It's very much unlike Hezbollah to deny something like this, usually they take pride in such an attack. I think this is stitch up by Nethenyahu and co. to strike Lebanon.
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Good point.

Hezbollah generally takes credits if they do something. It is not in their nature to deny.

Was it an inside job?
 
Three killed, 15 injured in Israeli airstrikes, Syrian state news agency claims

Israeli airstrikes in central Syria have killed three people and injured at least 15 others, state-run Syrian news agency SANA reported Sunday.

SANA said there had been several explosions and “air defense engagements” in the central region of Syria, including in the Tartous and Hama governorates, that resulted in multiple civilian casualties.

Asked about the report by CNN, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it did not comment “on reports in the foreign media.”

The Syrian news agency cited a military source as saying “the Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from the direction of northwest Lebanon, targeting a number of military sites in the central region” shortly before 8.30 p.m. local time on Sunday.

The source said Syrian air defenses had intercepted and shot down some of the missiles.

SANA said the strikes had damaged the Wadi al-Uyun highway in Masyaf and caused a blaze that firefighters were working to control.


 

Israeli strike on residential building in Syria’s Damascus kills three​


Three civilians were killed and three wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Syria’s capital Damascus on Wednesday, the Syrian state news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying.

The Israeli airstrike targeted a residential building in the Mezzah suburb in western Damascus, the source said.

Israel has been carrying out strikes against Iran-linked targets in Syria for years, but has ramped up such raids since last year’s Oct. 7 attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israeli territory.

 

Syria says Israeli strike in Damascus killed civilians​


Syria’s foreign ministry has condemned a suspected Israeli air strike on an apartment building in Damascus that, it says, killed seven civilians.

The ministry said women and children were among the dead from Tuesday evening’s attack on the Mezzeh neighbourhood, which houses the Iranian embassy and other diplomatic facilities. Israel's military has not commented.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 13, including nine civilians and two members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, which is a key ally of Iran and Syria's government.

The UK-based monitoring group said the strike targeted an apartment frequented by leaders of Iran's "Axis of Resistance".

Syria’s state news agency, Sana, cited a military source as saying that the building was hit by three missiles launched by Israeli aircraft from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights.

Photographs from the scene showed emergency services personnel inspecting significant damage to apartments on the first, second and third floors.

"I was on my way home when the explosion happened and communications and electricity were cut off so I could no longer contact my family," electrician Adel Habib, 61, who lives in the building, told AFP news agency.

"These were the longest five minutes of my life until I heard the voices of my wife, children and grandchildren."

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights identified the civilians killed as a Yemeni doctor, his wife and their three children, as well as a woman and her child, a female doctor and a man.

Iran's embassy said no Iranian citizens were among the casualties.

On Wednesday, one member of the Syrian security forces was killed in an Israeli strike near the south-western city of Quneitra, according to Sana.

Last week, another Israeli strike in Mezzeh reportedly killed the son-in-law of the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Hassan Jaafar Qassir.

Israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in Syria that it says are linked to Iran and allied armed groups like Hezbollah.

The Israeli strikes in Syria have reportedly been more frequent since the start of the war in Gaza last October, in response to cross-border attacks on northern Israel by Hezbollah and other groups in Lebanon and Syria.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Israeli air and artillery strikes have targeted Syrian territory on 104 occasions since January, killing at least 296 people and resulting in the damage or destruction of about 190 targets, including weapons depots, vehicles and Iran-backed militia headquarters.

Over the past three weeks, Israel has also gone on the offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon, launching an intense and wide-ranging air campaign targeting the group’s infrastructure and weapons, and invading the south of the country.

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Syria says Israeli strike in Damascus killed civilians

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says nine civilians were killed alongside two Hezbollah members in the attack.
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Israeli construction along buffer zone with Syria violates ceasefire, UN says

The United Nations says Israeli construction along a demilitarised buffer zone with Syria has led to “severe violations” of a 50-year-old ceasefire agreement, which risk increasing tensions along their shared frontier in the occupied Golan Heights.

Satellite photographs show new trenches and earth berms dug over the past few months along the length of what is known as the Area of Separation (AoS).

The BBC has filmed construction taking place alongside a military vehicle near the town of Majdal Shams, and fresh earthworks in rural land further south. The work in both locations is believed to lie within Israeli-controlled areas.

The UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) says most of the Israeli construction does not breach the AoS, but that some trenches - dug under protection from military vehicles including tanks - do cross into it, and that Israeli army vehicles and personnel have also entered the buffer zone.


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Israeli construction along buffer zone with Syria violates ceasefire, UN says

New trenches and berms are being constructed along the frontier in the occupied Golan Heights.
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2 Islamic Jihad leaders confirmed killed in Israeli attack on Syria

Two senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad figures were killed in an Israeli strike on Syria this week.

An Islamic Jihad statement confirmed Abdel Aziz Minawi and Rasmi Yusuf Abu Issa were killed alongside “a group of the movement’s cadres” in the Thursday air raid on offices and apartments in the capital Damascus.

Minawi, born in 1945, was described as a “prominent leader”, and Abu Issa, born in 1972, as Islamic Jihad’s “head of Arab relations”.

The group said the bodies were recovered on Saturday morning. It pledged that their deaths would “only increase our firmness and determination to continue the resistance” against Israel.

Al Jazeera
 

Israeli attack on Syria’s Palmyra kills 36 people, Syrian state media says​


An Israeli attack on Syria’s historic city of Palmyra killed 36 people and wounded more than 50 on Wednesday after it hit residential buildings and an industrial zone, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported.

The Israeli military declined to comment when asked about an earlier SANA report which did not refer to mass casualties.

Israel has been carrying out strikes against Iran-linked targets in Syria for years but has ramped up such raids since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel that sparked the Gaza war.

The Israeli military said last week it had attacked transit routes on the Syrian-Lebanese border that were used to transfer weapons to Hezbollah.

Palmyra’s ancient city is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It was seized by ISIS militants in 2015 and partially destroyed before it was recaptured by the Syrian army.

 
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