Tag: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps

In accordance with Israel's national policy, the Israel Defense Force declined to comment on the reports.

“Look, they even jail and murder environmentalists when they organize, like the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation.”

Unidentified aircraft fired missiles at the warehouse, located at the al-Hamdan airport outside Deir ez-Zor.

In August 2017, Brigadier General Hamid Abazari stated that 25% of the several tens of thousands soldiers that Iran had sent to Syria had been killed or wounded.

The unmanned aerial vehicle threatened the American amphibious assault ship, the USS Boxer, while it was in the Strait of Hormuz.

Damascus, Homs, and Tartous are among the areas were Iranian military sites were attacked overnight.

“Today’s action targets commanders of the IRGC’s Navy, Aerospace, and Ground Forces ... and the commanders of the IRGC Navy’s (IRGCN) five naval districts."

Meanwhile, according to Fars News, a former employee of the Iranian Defense Ministry's Aerospace Industries Organization was executed for carrying out espionage operations for the White House and the CIA.

Israel is preparing for the possibility of being dragged into the escalation.

"The sides will have a vital exchange of views on the situation in the region, namely the Middle East settlement, the settlement process in Syria and other issues, which they consider necessary to discuss.”

The al-Arin neighborhood in western Damascus is reportedly home to the 4th Armored Division military base, the homes of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims five were killed in the attack.

“I don’t see a change in any behavior. The situation still remains tense. It is a high-threat environment.”

“We’re going to be sending a relatively small number of troops, mostly protective, and some very talented people are going to the Middle East right now, and we’ll see what happens."

“Anti-air defenses intercept unidentified objects that had entered the airspace of the southern region from the occupied territories.”

"Incentive packages have been considered for the Iranian companies in development projects of Syria."

Powerful explosions were heard over the Syrian capital by numerous residents in the area.

Numerous reports claim a number of personnel from the Hezbollah guerrilla organization and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed and wounded in the strike.

The Israeli fighter pilot who reportedly carried out the strike succeeded in hitting the target despite having to dodge several Syrian S-200 air defense missiles.

"We are also operating against the transfer of deadly weapons from Syria to Lebanon or their manufacture in Lebanon."

“It was the first time we attacked live Iranian targets, both facilities and people,” the IDF officer told The New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted, "US & Europeans should stop pouring hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons into our region instead of questioning Iran’s missiles."

The U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions on five Iranian companies alleged to be working on Iran's ballistic missile program.

Netanyahu thanked Secy. Mnuchin for the Treasury Department's strong action against the Iranian regime.

IDF military intelligence says Sha'iti is now taking his orders from Qassem Soleimani, head of the Qods Force that leads the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.

The attack was a warning, Tehran said. ISIS would be engulfed by [IRGC’s] "revolutionary wrath and flames of the fire of its revenge, in case they repeat any such devilish and dirty move in future."

Nasrallah said Hezbollah is dismantling its military positions on Lebanon's eastern border; he declared the area to be the “responsibility of the Lebanese state."

Iran has been exposed for the first time ever in an attempt to murder a pro-Israel German politician.

Like the bulk of the Democratic party, Biden supports a two-state solution.

Route 98 in the Israeli Golan Heights was closed to traffic after the third Syrian mortar shell exploded in the area, making the road risky for travelers.