Syrian warplanes bomb Sunni militant targets inside Iraq
Written by : Mohamed Abdel Fattah
Jun 26, 2014
Syrian government aircraft bombed Sunni militant targets inside Iraq on Tuesday.
At least 57 Iraqi civilians were killed and more than 120 others were wounded ,officials said.The attack marks the first serious involvement in the current Iraq crisis by President Bashar Assad’s regime.
Syrian warplanes that struck several border areas of Anbar province Tuesday,deepening the concerns that the extremist insurgency that spans the two neighboring countries could morph into an even wider regional conflict.
The United States confirmed that Syrian warplanes bombed militants' positions Tuesday in and near the Iraqi border crossing in the town of Qaim.
"We've made it clear to everyone in the region that we don't need anything to take place that might exacerbate the sectarian divisions that are already at a heightened level of tension," Kerry said at a NATO meeting in Brussels.
The Pentagon said that 90 additional U.S. troops arrived in Iraq, part of a group of up to 300 military advisers that President Obama said last week he would deploy there to assess the situation before taking any further U.S. military action.
Also Pentagon said late Tuesday that it is scheduling 30 to 35 surveillance flights over Iraq each day. About 90 troops have been assigned to Baghdad’s joint operations center.
The conflict has been "widened, obviously, in the last days with the reports of (Iranian Revolutionary Guard) personnel, of some people from Iran being engaged in Iraq" and recent Syrian activities, Kerry said.
According to AP, A top Iraqi intelligence official said Iran was secretly supplying the Iraqi security forces with weapons, including rockets, heavy machine guns and multiple rocket launchers.
The involvement of Syria and Iran in Iraq suggests a growing cooperation among the three Shiite-led governments in response to the raging Sunni insurgency.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISISL) , the Sunni extremist group that has seized large swaths of Iraq's north and west in recent weeks and seeks to create an Islamic territory across both sides of the Syria-Iraq border.
The Sunni militants have captured advanced weapons, tanks and Humvees from the Iraq military that have made their way into Syria, and that fighters are crossing freely from one side to the other have alarmed the Syrian government
ISIS militants are fighting the governments on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border, and an apparent decision by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to intervene to help Maliki further tangles the already complex knot of actors in the overlapping crises.
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AP
CNN
usatoday
Jun 26, 2014
Syrian government aircraft bombed Sunni militant targets inside Iraq on Tuesday.
At least 57 Iraqi civilians were killed and more than 120 others were wounded ,officials said.The attack marks the first serious involvement in the current Iraq crisis by President Bashar Assad’s regime.
Syrian warplanes that struck several border areas of Anbar province Tuesday,deepening the concerns that the extremist insurgency that spans the two neighboring countries could morph into an even wider regional conflict.
The United States confirmed that Syrian warplanes bombed militants' positions Tuesday in and near the Iraqi border crossing in the town of Qaim.
"We've made it clear to everyone in the region that we don't need anything to take place that might exacerbate the sectarian divisions that are already at a heightened level of tension," Kerry said at a NATO meeting in Brussels.
The Pentagon said that 90 additional U.S. troops arrived in Iraq, part of a group of up to 300 military advisers that President Obama said last week he would deploy there to assess the situation before taking any further U.S. military action.
Also Pentagon said late Tuesday that it is scheduling 30 to 35 surveillance flights over Iraq each day. About 90 troops have been assigned to Baghdad’s joint operations center.
The conflict has been "widened, obviously, in the last days with the reports of (Iranian Revolutionary Guard) personnel, of some people from Iran being engaged in Iraq" and recent Syrian activities, Kerry said.
According to AP, A top Iraqi intelligence official said Iran was secretly supplying the Iraqi security forces with weapons, including rockets, heavy machine guns and multiple rocket launchers.
The involvement of Syria and Iran in Iraq suggests a growing cooperation among the three Shiite-led governments in response to the raging Sunni insurgency.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISISL) , the Sunni extremist group that has seized large swaths of Iraq's north and west in recent weeks and seeks to create an Islamic territory across both sides of the Syria-Iraq border.
The Sunni militants have captured advanced weapons, tanks and Humvees from the Iraq military that have made their way into Syria, and that fighters are crossing freely from one side to the other have alarmed the Syrian government
ISIS militants are fighting the governments on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border, and an apparent decision by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to intervene to help Maliki further tangles the already complex knot of actors in the overlapping crises.
Sources
AP
CNN
usatoday
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