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In September 2012, Western intelligence officials stated that Iran had sent 150 senior members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to preserve the Assad government, and had also sent hundreds of tons of military equipment (among them guns, rockets, and shells) to the Assad government via an air corridor that Syria and Iran jointly established.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), launched an offensive on pro-government forces near the towns of Khasham and Al-Salihiyah in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor on 3 December. They managed to capture the village of Al-Hussainiyah. [14] CJTF–OIR coalition aircraft provided support to the SDF, by targeting Iran-backed militias in the ...
The Funding of the Axis of Resistance refers to the way the axis, a network of Iranian-backed militias and political groups in the Middle East, [1] [2] gains its financial resources. Via the Qods Force [ 3 ] —a special forces unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps —Iran has allocated substantial resources to strengthen each group's ...
Russia has provided air support to the regime and to Iranian-backed forces in Syria. [123] However, despite cooperation with Iran in Syria, Russia has maintained close ties with Israel and Arab Gulf states [ 124 ] [ 125 ] [ 126 ] and has been pursuing normalisation of ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia. [ 127 ]
A number of sources have emphasized that as of at least late-2015/early-2016 the Assad regime was dependent on a mix of volunteers and militias, rather than the Syrian Armed Forces. [1] [2] Between 2016 and 2020, with the help of Russia and Iran, the Syrian Arab Armed Forces were rebuilt and united most of the armed militias. [3]
On 2 February 2024, the United States Air Force launched a series of airstrikes targeting Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran-backed militia groups located in Iraq and Syria. The attack was launched in retaliation against a drone strike carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeting US troops in Jordan the week before ...
On 27 March, the White House said that the attacks would not trigger a U.S. withdrawal from its nearly eight-year-long deployment in Syria. on 23 March 2023, United States Central Command commander Michael Kurilla said in his speech to House Committee on Armed Services that today Iran has grown its military power exponentially compared to five years ago and claimed Iranian-backed groups have ...
Iran and Syria had a strategic alliance ever since the Iran–Iraq War, when Syria sided with non-Arab Iran against neighbouring Ba'ath-ruled Iraq. [3] The two countries shared a common animosity towards then- Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and coordination against the United States and Israel until the fall of the Assad regime after the 2024 ...