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UPDATED: Rocket Attack on Iraq Base Retaliates for US Strikes Inside Syria
The US base at Tanf in eastern Syria on the Iraq border (File)
UPDATE, MARCH 4: US officials have said that Wednesday’s rocket attack, on an Iraqi base with US personnel, fits the profile of assaults by Iran-backed Iraqi militia.
However, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said, “We cannot attribute responsibility at this time, and we do not have a complete picture of the extent of the damage.”
The Pentagon repeated that there are no reports of casualties, but an American civilian contractor died after suffering a “cardiac episode” while sheltering from rockets.
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Two recent news articles starkly underscore the difference between covering Syrian propaganda versus providing cover for Syrian propaganda.
The Syrian army said on Sunday evening that Israeli-fired rockets struck parts of southern Damascus in escalating attacks that regional intelligence sources say target Iran-linked assets.
A Syrian army statement said the attack came from the Golan Heights and that it had downed most of the missiles, in the second such strike in less than a month on the outskirts of the capital.
Significantly, on four occasions, the Reuters articles cites information from Western or regional intelligence sources noting that Iran is entrenching itself in Syria. Besides the opening sentence, Reuters’ Nayera Abdallah and Suleiman al-Khalidi report: