{"id":35218,"date":"2018-06-19T05:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T10:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35218"},"modified":"2018-06-19T05:30:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T10:30:11","slug":"unprecedented-israeli-strikes-target-iraqi-shia-militias-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35218","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented Israeli Strikes Target Iraqi Shia Militias In Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unprecedented Israeli Strikes Target Iraqi Shia Militias In Syria<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A day after a mysterious airstrike close to the Iraq-Syria border reportedly killed over 30 Syrian government soldiers and Iraqi paramilitary forces backed by Iran, a US official has told<\/a> CNN the attack was carried out by Israel and not by the US coalition.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Syrian state media blamed the strike on the US-led coalition\u00a0\u2014 though in the immediate aftermath any level of confirmation or evidence was hard to come by. The claims\u00a0prompted the US coalition spokesman to issue a formal denial<\/strong>, calling Syria’s accusation “misinformation” as US-backed SDF forces are only operating east of the Euphrates, and not near Abu Kamal, which lies west, according to the statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If confirmed it would mark the first time in the war that Iraq’s paramilitary forces have been targeted by Israel.<\/strong> The Iran-backed\u00a0Popular Mobilization Units (PMU, or PMF) have increasingly coordinated with the Syrian Army as well as pro-Syrian irregular Shia fighters during anti-ISIS operations along Syria’s eastern border of late.<\/p>\n

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The incident marks the second time in three weeks that the Syrian Army has accused the US Coalition of bombing their troops in southeast Syria; however it is uncertain as yet how Damascus will respond to this new claim of Israeli responsibility.<\/p>\n

The CNN source is an unnamed US official, who gave no other details on the strike, including how many jets conducted the mission or the flight path into the Iraq-Syria border area, though CNN notes<\/a>, “The area is some distance from Israel and Israeli jets would have had to overcome significant logistical hurdles to strike that area.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Unprecedented Israeli Strikes Target Iraqi Shia Militias In Syria A day after a mysterious airstrike close to the Iraq-Syria border reportedly killed over 30 Syrian government soldiers and Iraqi paramilitary forces backed by Iran, a US official has told CNN the attack was carried out by Israel and not by the US coalition. Syrian state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19787,441,442,1049,525,694,776,827,4318],"class_list":["post-35218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-air-strikes","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-israel","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35219,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35218\/revisions\/35219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}