Illustrative image. Source: the media wing of Kata’ib Hezbollah.
The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is training Iraqi fighters from Kata’ib Hezbollah and Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba on man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADs) in the southern countryside of Syria’s Raqqa, the Eye of Euphrates reported on April 28.
According to the Syrian pro-opposition news blog, the training course is being held in the outskirts of the town of al-Resafa.
At least 25 Iraqi fighters are taking part in the course. The fighters are being trained five days a week on the use of MANPADs against drones, helicopters and fighter jets. A live-fire exercise will allegedly be held in the end of the training course.
“The training is supervised by two Iraqi commanders of the IRGC called Osman Abu al-Zayd and Mohab Ezzedine,” the Eye of Euphrates said in its report.
The blog said that this was the second such training course to be held by the IRGC in the southern countryside of Raqqa in less than a year. The previous course was allegedly held in mid-November 2021.
Over the past year, Iranian-backed forces expanded their presence in the southern countryside of Raqqa. The move was likely a response to an escalation in ISIS activities in the area, as well as a result of repeated Israeli and US strikes on the positions of Iranian-backed forces in nearby Deir Ezzor.
The Eye of Euphrates report may be propaganda. However, it is also possible that the IRGC is working to equip its allies in Iraq and Syria with MANPADs to defend against Israeli and US warplanes.
Again people no matter which website you are on make sure to fact-check/research by yourself.
The Eye of Euphrates, “We support the demands of the Syrians to obtain their rights to freedom and dignity, and we demand the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime and the exit of foreign powers from Syria, including the Iranian militias. ”
A Zion/Daesh/Turk-isis/Kurd-isis network for hard-core Sunnis targeting Iran/Iraq and Syria. “overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime and the exit of foreign powers from Syria, including the Iranian militias”.
Here is their website: eyeofeuphrates com It is Arabic so change it to English.
I said it before and I say it again sometimes SF “team” are clowns and see us as fools. Good job SF, but couldn’t you clowns look them up for a sec? Do you think I believe them? Or should you guys?
I also love how you guys try to cover your ass by saying this at the end. “The Eye of Euphrates report may be propaganda. However, it is also possible that the IRGC is working to equip its allies in Iraq and Syria with MANPADs to defend against Israeli and US warplanes.”
Ohhhhhhh, it may be propaganda? By whom? “We demand the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime and the exit of foreign powers from Syria, including the Iranian militias.”
PrOpAgAnDa….they sure as shit don’t like Iraq/Syria or Iran.
You fail to mention that Syria is a battleground of many sides, not only of two. There are powers for example that like both Assad and Iran, there are powers that hate both Assad and Iran and there is a power that likes Iran but hates Assad.
Hey Francis it may come as a shocker to you but the “South Front clowns” are more than likely two guys working from home trying to find and edit and post stories to keep the site active. The ticker that begs for money each month with the goal of 4k means you may not get the full back ground on every thing they publish. Might also be a dead giveaway they do not have the staff to nit pick every story.
“The “South Front clowns” are more than likely two guys working from home trying to find and edit and post stories to keep the site active.” NO, they are not just two people working from a home buddy, and I can ensure you that much.
“with the goal of 4k” They have the money and are connected to “other groups”. I’m not going to say much as SF doesn’t like to be called out. But you do know you can find a lot of information about them, right? They aren’t new or unknown to people.
P.S. all I said was they could have looked into their “source” for 1/2 mins.
Yes but why do you think that radical Shia Iraqis and Iranians don’t really care about Syria or stability in the region but they are playing their game which is to divide Syria into ethno-sectarian states and this will be helpful to Turkey.
Syria should be with the Egyptian-Saudi-Emirati alliance.
You live in Southern Europe and as such, the conflict in the Near East has nothing to do with you, nor do you get a say who allies with whom.
Just because you are so pathetically impotent before the turks doesn’t mean everyone else amends their politics to cater to your needs. Now fuck off.
The impotent ones are those that hide behind jihadist flags in order to cover their weakness.
Nope, the impotent ones are greeks alright. Manzikert, Constantinople, Turkish War of Independence, Turkish Occupation of Cyprus…you’ve been daisy-chaining military catastrophes in a huge garland over a millennium now (and that’s inspite of NATO support in recent years).
We were the winners in every Balkan war and also WWI, WWII and Cold War.
“WE WUZ DA WINNAHZ”
Nope, this guy is spot on about Greek history. The Turks raped you in WW1 DESPITE BEING DEFEATED INITIALLY, Germans raped your shitskin country until the British rushed to save you, then in the Cold War, Cyprus was occupied and mass slaughter of Greeks occurred on the island plus in the Balkans War, the Albanian insurgents went around massacring Greeks in FYROM.
You are short-dicked shitskins whose pussies get raped again and again every few decades.
When Saddam invaded Iran, most of the world supported Saddam. I tell you what, look which countries supported Iran. “During the Iran-Iraq War, Iran’s only major allies were Syria and Libya.”
A Zion pig slave like you will never understand the Middle East nor their culture because you are not from there nor have any brain cells to think besides sucking Zion d’s.
“divide Syria” How fuking low-life are you really Zion slave? Yanquis-Zion-Turk-isis-Daeshplan was to divide Syria and you can still see that. Yanquis supporting Daesh and Kurd-isis. Turk-isis-stan supporting Deash in N-Syria. Zion supporting Deash all around Syria.
Iran, Russia, and Syrian are the ones that are holding these evils and killing them, not what you g0ygay Zion boyfriend of yours tell you, clown.
“Syria should be with the Egyptian-Saudi-Emirati alliance.” F for history.
You make no sense for another time. The Western bloc supported both sides while the Eastern bloc supported Saddam Hussein. If both bloc supported Saddam then Saddam would win.