“Tower 22” in Jordan, Al-Tanf in Syria

Posted on February 1, 2024 by therearenosunglasses

[Pentagon reports that enemy drone mistook for US drone returning from a mission…what mission? Was it perhaps returning fron an attack/surveillance mission upon the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq” in Iraq or Syria, when it picked-up a hostile tail? “there is also an underlying KH-dominated zone (which the group calls the KH Jazeera Operations Command) that spans the Jurf-Akashat-Qaim area”. Back into the Shadows? The Future of Kata’ib Hezbollah and Iran’s Other Proxies in Iraq,  MICHAEL KNIGHTS]

“Tower 22”, US drone base in Jordan, site of Iranian militia drone attack, which killed 3 and wounded approx. 40 US troops.

Al-Tanf Garrison, illegal US military base in occupied Syria, approx. 15-20 miles from “Tower 22”.

Back into the Shadows? The Future of Kata’ib Hezbollah and Iran’s Other Proxies in Iraq

OCTOBER 2020, VOLUME 13, ISSUE 10,  MICHAEL KNIGHTS

“there is also an underlying KH-dominated zone (which the group calls the KH Jazeera Operations Command) that spans the Jurf-Akashat-Qaim area.
Western Anbar and Albu Kamal Bases for KH
KH has worked hard to develop its presence in Anbar, an area to which it is entirely alien as there is virtually no Shi`a population there. KH has been deploying to western Anbar since 2013, and has used the area to reach Syrian battlefields.189 Though Anbar is theoretically under the command of both a three-star military headquarters (Anbar Operations Command) and the PMF (West Anbar Operations Command or axis), there is also an underlying KH-dominated zone (which the group calls the KH Jazeera Operations Command) that spans the Jurf-Akashat-Qaim area.190 In this area, KH has invested great effort in removing adversaries (for instance, ousting the Anbar Operations Command leader, and both customs posts at the Akashat and Qaim end) and building up covert influence networks.191 KH has developed a large informant and influence network in Anbar that spans the Anbar Operations Command, Anbar Police, National Security Service, provincial and district officials, and the 8th and 14th Iraq army divisions.192

The western Anbar bases of KH and closely allied militias were detailed in an August 2019 study for CTC Sentinel by this author.193 It consists of two sub-sectors: the eastern Al-Qaim border crossing on the Euphrates, facing the Albu Kamal areas in Syria,194 and the western Akashat sub-sector (headquartered in Rutbah).195 The main KH headquarters in Al-Qaim is the base for PMF brigade 45, the praetorian KH fighting force, and was struck by U.S. forces on December 29, 2019, killing the PMF brigade 45 commander, Kadhim Alwan (Abu Ali al-Dibi).196 KH forces (mainly from PMF brigade 46) control Highway 20 (which parallels the Iraq-Syria border be­tween the two sub-sectors,197 and ranches between the highway and the border.198 bt These rural areas, close to the Iraq-Syria oil pipeline corridor (and its coaxial road), are used to move missile or rocket forces to Syria.199 (Of note, an earlier August 25, 2019, airstrike (apparently Israeli) struck moving vehicles that were positioned about halfway between two of the sites hit later by the United States on December 29, 2019, underlining Israel’s intense focus on the chain of bases.200)

Immediately over the border, a few kilometers west of the Husaybah customs point and linked by dedicated tracks, is KH’s Imam Ali base, just outside the Syrian town of Albu Kamal.bu After the Aleppo campaign at the end of 2016, KH-Syrian Front concentrated its military efforts in Syria on the Deir ez-Zor area and the town of Albu Kamal, which was captured from the Islamic State in September 2017.201 On June 18, 2018, Israel struck KH in Albu Kamal for the first time, hitting the original KH headquarters close to the border,202 and then struck the Imam Ali base on September 8, 2019,203 January 5, 2020,204 and March 11, 2020.205 The latter strike hit 15 structures in the broader Albu Kamal area, including warehouses at the Imam Ali base, another KH site in the industrial quarter, two Fatimiyoun sites, and Hezbollah Harakat al-Nujaba base in Albu Kamal town, and two Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada base just southeast of Albu Kamal town.206 According to press reporting based on satellite imagery, the Imam Ali base may have significant underground facilities, including perhaps a tunnel to the Iraqi side of the border.207 In Mayadin, 50 miles north of Albu Kamal, KH is reported to have other warehouses at a site called al-Haydaria.208″

 

 

 

Iranian Missiles Destroy Peshmerga Financier and al-Nusra Training Center In Erbil, Kurdistan

https://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/iranian-missiles-destroy-peshmerga-financier-and-al-nusra-training-center-in-erbil-kurdistan/

[Peshraw Dizayee, known sponsor of Peshmerga forces, was killed in this Iranian revenge strike.  The primary target, Erbil, Kurdistan, received up to 8 missile strikes, targeted Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, the latest incarnation of al-Qaida in Iraq, formerly  known as Jabhat al-Nusra.  The entire al-Nusra movement is still controlled by the CIA's favorite stooge...

Abu Mohammed al-Julani,

the diminutive former school teacher turned terrorist leader with nine lives.  Julani, or Golani was surely the target of the strikes, but we will never know for certain if he has survived, once again. The missiles allegedly struck a meeting of the terrorists who were training and preparing Afghani terrorist recruits, to join Islamic State Khorasan Province or ISIS-K.]

Iran strikes terrorists’ positions in Syria, Mossad center in Iraqi Kurdistan

 

 

TEHRAN - In early Tuesday morning the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) fired barrages of ballistic missiles at Syrian positions of terrorists who were involved in the recent attacks inside Iran, as well as an Israeli Mossad espionage center in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.

The IRGC said the first missile strike targeted gathering places of commanders and main elements of recent terrorist attacks in the Iranian cities of Kerman and Rask.

The strike came after gathering points of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group were identified in the occupied territories of Syria and destroyed with a number of ballistic missiles, the IRGC stated.

Daesh claimed responsibility for two suicide attacks that killed nearly 100 people and wounded 280 at a memorial service for top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in the southeastern city of Kerman on January 3.

Last month, another terrorist attack hit a police station in the border city of Rask in the southeastern province of Sistan-Balouchestan, killing 11 police officers and injuring at least six others.

In a later statement the IRGC announced that another missile strike has been launched at a main espionage center of the Israel's Mossad spy agency in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.

It said the strike was a sign of the IRGC’s full intelligence superiority over the Zionist regime's bases and activities in the region, Press TV reported.

The IRGC added that its missile strike on the Iraqi Kurdistan region has totally destroyed the Mossad center there.

The Mossad center was used "to develop espionage operations and plan acts of terrorism" across the region, especially in Iran, the IRGC said in its statement.

The missile strike against the Mossad center, the statement said, was in retaliation for the recent assassinations of the resistance front’s commanders, especially those of the IRGC, by Israel.

General Seyed Razi Mousavi, a member of the IRGC serving as a military adviser in Syria, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in a residential neighborhood in the suburbs of Damascus on December 25.

The IRGC also assured the Iranian nation that it will find "the malicious terrorist groups" that are active against Iran “wherever they are and will punish them for their shameful deeds.”