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title: "U.S. Strikes Targets in Syria as Israel-Hamas War Escalates"
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**This was expected. Israeli strikes in Gaza against Hamas (Israel’s proxy) were inevitably going to give cover to wider war. How much wider will this go- Dangerous. Insane. The US has struck eastern Syria to protect their PKK proxies who are lovingly ensconced in the stolen and ethnically cleansed territory**

[**Foreign Policy**](https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/27/israel-hamas-gaza-spillover-violence-us-iran-syria-egypt-drone-strike/)

> **On Thursday, the United States [executed](https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/26/politics/us-strikes-facilities-syria/index.html?utm_source=GZERO+Daily&utm_campaign=aca303d1fe-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_10_27_10_58&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e605619869-aca303d1fe-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D) airstrikes against two Iranian-backed militant targets in eastern Syria.** According to the U.S. Defense Department, two F-16 fighter jets targeted a weapons and ammunition storage facility funded by Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

**The Iran/Hamas Connection is largely spin in my opinion. Hamas bashed Assad every chance they could- Hamas, Israel and Qatar that’s a different story.**

[Let’s go back to 2012](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-17192278)

> **On Friday, the head of the Hamas government in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, declared his support for Syrian people against President Bashar al-Assad.**

[Breaking Defense](https://breakingdefense.com/2023/10/amid-us-strikes-in-syria-examining-iran-its-proxies-and-the-question-of-control/)

> **The US has made no secret it holds Iran responsible for the actions of its regional proxies, but `experts told Breaking Defense Tehran's level of control can vary from group to group.`**
> 
> Earlier this month, ***purported***  ***(weasel word)*** **Iran-back militias** in Iraq that [fall under the banner](https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/profile-islamic-resistance-iraq) of “Islamic Resistance,” claimed responsibility for attacks on US military bases at al-Tanf and Malikiyah in Syria and air base Ain Al Asad in Iraq, that used loitering munitions. Altogether, the US said there have **been at least 13 attacks on US interests in Iraq and Syria in recent days**. **`One American contractor died of a cardiac event during one attack, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">but otherwise none have been fatal.</span>`**

**13 attacks on US interests and no fatalities from the strikes themselves but one killer for higher had a heart attack.**

**These militias are likely a rebranded version of ISIS- or KurdIShIS**

> **“The control varies**, with some groups closely tied to Iran and other less so.
> 
> “In regards to whether or not Iran is directly controlling or ordering these attacks, the answer is that a**t least some of them are probably getting direction from the \[the Iranian military group\]**
> 
> **But like Hezbollah, Tehran so far does not appear eager to wade into a larger conflict in the Middle East**

**So the US and Israel intend to drag them into the conflict via attacks on Syria and Lebanon**

> To the contrary, **carrier groups were called to Eastern Mediterranean for deterrence purposes.** And just Thursday the US Missile Defense Agency [publicized](https://www.mda.mil/news/23news0004.html) a successful test of its ship-based missile defense systems that was apparently able to knock out several incoming threats at once.

> **The exercise surely was planned months in advance, but it comes at an opportune moment perhaps as a show of force for any Iran-backed proxies considering making a move against the maritime force.**