The Syrian military has accused Israel of bombing the T-4 Base in Homs hours after rockets hit an Iraqi military base used by U.S. and allied personnel near Baghdad.
Israel has yet to claim responsibility for the attack, but has deliberately neither confirmed nor denied most of its operations in Syria and neighboring Iraq, both of which hosted Shiite Muslim militias aligned with Iran. These groups have expressed hostility toward Israel, as well as Saudi Arabia and the United States, which their fighters increasingly saw asAcross the border in Iraq, another yet unclaimed attack struck a military facility Tuesday.
Though no party has claimed responsibility for either attack, the two incidents fit a growing pattern of hostilities witnessed in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. and Iran have long been involved in extraterritorial operations across the Middle East and, while both saw launched campaigns to battle ISIS in 2014, the two rivals and their respective allies have since regarded one another as presenting the top terrorist threat.
An image grab shows on November 20, 2019 reportedly shows Syrian air defense batteries responding to Israeli missiles targeting the southern outskirts of Damascus. - The Israeli military said at the time that it targeted Iranian Quds Force and Syrian military targets"in response to the rockets fired at Israel by an Iranian force in Syria."Also in 2011, the U.S.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force commander Major General Qassem Soleimani, Popular Mobilization Forces deputy chairman Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and other members of their entourage near Baghdad International Airport. The shocking move led mostly Shiite Muslim Iraqi lawmakers to successfully vote for the withdrawal of U.S. forces andThe Trump administration has so far responded only with stronger sanctions, but U.S.
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