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[H/T Melian]US Intelligence officials have branded Israel's strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria as "reckless" and fear a wider war in the Middle East.The CIA has warned Israel that Iran will attack the country in the next 48 hours, it has been reported.Israel killed two Iranian military commanders with a strike on Tehran's consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus this week.Iran vowed that it would take revenge for the attack, and now foreign media is reporting that US intelligence is fearful of an attack on Israel.Tehran is said to be planning a combined attack with a "rain" of drones...

Iran is trying to mobilize this diplomatic support before lashing out with its promised “retaliation.” In the past, Iran has attacked Erbil in Iraq when it wanted to “retaliate.” Iran is engaged in the first part of its response to an airstrike this week in Damascus, which Iran has blamed on Israel. It is not only slamming Israel, it is also blaming the United States. This shows how Iran is seeking to link the incident that killed several key Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members to a wider regional struggle in which Iran is engaged in trying to reduce US influence...

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An apparent airstrike in Damascus on Monday killed Mohammed Reza Zahedi, a top commander in the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Iranian state television has confirmed. Iranian press reported that Zahedi was meeting with leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad at the time of the strike, but these reports could not be independently verified. Zahedi commanded the Quds Force's Unit 18000, responsible, among other things, for smuggling ammunition and precision weapons into Lebanon. He had also commanded the IRGC's Air Force and Imam Hussein Division in the past. Initial reports indicate that at least six people were...

DAMASCUS, April 1 (Reuters) - Iran's consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus was flattened on Monday in what Syrian and Iranian media described as an Israeli air strike, a startling apparent escalation of conflict in the Middle East that would pit Israel against Iran and its allies. A Lebanese security source, speaking to Reuters, said one of the dead was Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Iranian state television said several Iranian diplomats had been killed. Reuters reporters at the scene in the Mezzeh district of the Syrian capital saw smoke rising from rubble...

#MohammadRezaZahedi, one of the top commanders of the #QudsForce, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the building next to the Iranian embassy in #Damascus. He has been involved in killing people in the Kurdistan of Iran and killing children in Syria.

For the second time in less than a month, senior Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard officers have been killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike in Damascus, Syria. Iran's unofficial Mehr news agency said, "The Revolutionary Guards' Syria intel chief, his deputy, and two other Guards members were martyred in the attack on Syria by Israel." Updated reports say that five IRGC officers, plus some of their Syrian counterparts, were killed in the attack. The icons are already circulating. The intelligence chief, Sadegh Omidzadeh, was a close associate of Brigadier General Sayyed Reza Mousavi, the IRGC commander in Syria, who, along with...

An Israeli airstrike on the Damascus airport has reportedly killed nearly a dozen senior Iranian military officials, which one expert told Fox News Digital would prove Israel’s ability to maintain a multi-faceted defense of the region. "While there is no independent confirmation of Guard Corps names or ranks, the IRGC has long seen Syria as a critical regional hub to project power into the Eastern Mediterranean and connect its constellation of proxies called the ‘Axis of Resistance,’" Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said. "It should come as a shock to no one...

Syria's ally Russia on Monday (Nov 27) condemned Israeli air strikes on Damascus International Airport, describing them as provocative and dangerous. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Sunday's strikes could aggravate tensions in the region, already inflamed by the Gaza war. "We strongly condemn Israel’s latest provocative attack on an important Syrian civilian infrastructure facility," Zakharova said in a statement. "We are convinced that such a vicious practice is fraught with extremely dangerous consequences, especially in the context of a sharp aggravation of the situation in the zone of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the resulting increase in regional tension."...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken talking to Centrist Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz demanding action against Jews... Meanwhile another member of the war cabinet Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has ordered detention without trial for a second Jewish man... Israeli politics the war shaking up public opinion... In Louisville a mistrial declared at the civil rights trial of ex Louisville police officer Brett Hankison... In the Central American nation of Guatemala the Public Prosecutor's Office seeking to prosecute Leftist President-Elect... Israel attacking the Syrian capital Damascus early Friday morning... In France Senator Joel Guerriau arrested accused of drugging a...

After a suspicious absence from the limelight following the start of war between Israel and Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, Hezbollah’s Sec.-Gen. Hassan Nasrallah announced that he will be giving a major address to his supporters in Beirut, Lebanon on Friday at 3 p.m. local time. The speech is widely expected to reveal the direction the Iranian-backed terror organization Hezbollah intends to take in the conflict with Israel. Israel and the U.S. have so far made major efforts to keep Hezbollah on the sidelines of the war. U.S. President Joe Biden sent a strong message to that effect with his...

Hamas Leader Khaled Mash'al at a Damascus Mosque: The Nation of Islam Will Sit at the Throne of the World and the West Will Be Full of Remorse – When it's Too Late The following are excerpts from an address by Hamas leader Khaled Mash'al at the Al-Murabit Mosque in Damascus. The address was delivered following the Friday sermon at the mosque, and was aired on Al-Jazeera TV on February 3, 2006. "We Say to This West... By Allah, You Will Be defeated" Khaled Mash'al: "We apologize to our Prophet Muhammad, but we say to him: Oh Prophet of Allah,...

Hamas leader Khaled Mashal calls on Iraqi militants to stop taking hostages and concentrate on fighting U.S. forces (AP)

Israeli planes carried out strikes on airports in Aleppo and Damascus early Sunday, knocking both out of service, Syria’s state-run media said, marking the third such attack in 10 days. One civilian worker was killed and another wounded in the strike on the Damascus airport, the SANA state news agency said. Runways in both airports were damaged, causing all flights in and out of both airports to be canceled or diverted to an airport in coastal Latakia, SANA said. Official notices to international aviation authorities, known as NOTAMs, indicated that the runways would be unusable for at least two days....

As soon as Israel sends troops into Gaza, a chain of events will begin which nobody is going to be able to control. I believe that one of those events will be Hezbollah entering the conflict from the north. As I discussed yesterday, there is no way that Hezbollah is just going to sit there and watch Hamas get systematically wiped out by the IDF. Hezbollah is already mobilizing their forces and making preparations to join the fight. But if that happens, Israel is going to hit back extremely hard. In fact, there are reports that Israel has already warned...

DAMASCUS: Syria’s state television said an Israeli attack targeted the main airports in the capital Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo on Thursday.

The Israeli Air Force carried out airstrikes in the Syrian capital Damascus shortly after midnight on Friday, for the second night in a row, according to Syria’s state-run media outlet. The state news agency SANA reported that Syria’s air defenses intercepted the “hostile missiles” over the capital, though the “aggression” managed to cause some material damage. Damascus regularly claims to successfully intercept IDF strikes, but military analysts doubt these assertions. There were no immediate reports of injuries in the strike.

A Lebanese-based newspaper aligned with Syria released details Monday morning of the assassination of a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist near Damascus Sunday morning. On Sunday, the terror group announced that Ali Ramzi al-Aswad, 31, an engineer, was shot and killed by an "agent of the Zionist enemy" near Damascus, calling the killing a “cowardly assassination bearing the fingerprints of the Zionist enemy.” Islamic Jihad stated "we hold the Zionist enemy responsible for this crime" and vowed to respond to the assassination. A day later, the pro-Assad Al-Akhbar published a report with details of the assassination. At 8:00 a.m. Sunday morning,...

Syrian sources reported on Saturday that Israel attacked near Damascus. Air defense systems were activated. According to the sources, there were fatalities in the attack but there were conflicting reports as to the number. While Syria's Health Ministry said three people were killed and five were injured, other reports said the death toll was as high as 13 or 15. The sources added that the attack targeted a warehouse of Iranian arms that were on their way to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon. The Syrian networks reported that damage was caused to several buildings in the neighborhood of Kafar...

The Israeli army carried out a missile strike on Damascus International Airport on Monday that killed four people, including two Syrian soldiers, according to a human rights monitor. The attack — which occurred around 2:00 am (2300 GMT) — put the airport out of service, according to Syria’s state news agency SANA. Israel carried out the strike with “barrages of missiles, targeting Damascus International Airport and its surroundings”, a military source told SANA, which reported that two Syrian soldiers were killed.