Iran clams it targeted US base in Syria
Iran claims it targeted a U.S. military base in eastern Syria on Friday, which would be the first known attack by Iranian forces on Syrian territory since the U.S. and Israel jointly launched a war against Iran earlier this year.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it carried out a “surprise attack” on a U.S. special operations command center at al-Tanf near Syria’s southeastern borders with Iraq and Jordan in response to the killing of Iranian soldiers in the southeastern Iranian city of Iranshahr, according to Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB. ABC News cannot independently verify the claim.
In February, the U.S. military said it had completed a withdrawal from the so-called al-Tanf Garrison, which “was a key base along a southern highway that was a main smuggling route for Iranian weapons flowing into Syria and particularly Hezbollah in Lebanon.”