Posted on 02/03/2024 5:55:15 AM PST by FarCenter
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The US military said the air strikes hit more than 85 targets inside Iraq and Syria targeting both the elite Quds force of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and affiliated militia groups.
The US strikes in the west of Iraq killed at least 16 people, including civilians, Iraqi government spokesman Bassem al-Awadi said on Saturday.
"The security of Iraq and the region will find itself on the brink of an abyss" because of the strikes, Awadi said in a statement, and denied "false allegations" that there had been "prior coordination" with Washington over the strikes.
The US strikes overnight in eastern Syria killed 23 pro-Iran fighters, a war monitor said Saturday in a new toll.
"The toll has risen to 23 dead: 10 pro-Iran fighters in the Deir Ezzor area and 13 in the Mayadeen area," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, adding that nine of the fighters were Syrians while six were Iraqis. There were no reported civilian deaths.
The Syrian military had issued a statement earlier Saturday saying that the overnight strikes on its territory killed "a number of civilians and soldiers, wounded others and caused significant damage to public and private property".
"The occupation of parts of Syrian territory by US forces cannot continue," it added, affirming the army's "determination to liberate all Syrian territory from terrorism and occupation".
Iran on Saturday also condemned the strikes on Iraq and Syria as a "strategic mistake" by its arch-foe, without saying whether or not any they caused any Iranian casualties.
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Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said that at least 26 major sites housing pro-Iranian groups were destroyed, including weapons depots.
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Yes, if you don’t want war everywhere, you are a cowardly isolationist.
I was in the USAF on 9/11. We went to Afghanistan for the WoT, and to remove the Taliban from power.
In 2001 there were approximately 1.23 billion Muslims.
Today, there are approximately 2 billion Muslims and the Taliban rule Afghanistan.
Heh.
You really don’t think Joe would be forced to allow us our own gas again ???
Its an election year...
Anythings possible
“ China is calling us a weak and dying country.”
China is wrong.
We are a dead and rotting country.
The one thing we can be sure of is that, having been notified well in advance of the planned targets, the really bad actors were nowhere near the targets when the planes arrived...
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