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Report: Iran plans to increase attacks on US troops in Syria

Report: Iran plans to increase attacks on US troops in Syria
posted onJune 1, 2023
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Iran is possibly preparing to increase its attacks on US forces in Syria using “powerful armor-piercing roadside bombs,” according to a report at The Washington Post that is based on “classified intelligence reports.”

The report says that the IRGC Quds Force oversaw “testing of one of the explosives, which reportedly sliced through a tank’s armored plating in a trial run conducted in late January in Dumayr, east of Damascus, the Syrian capital," according to one of the intelligence reports.

The intelligence reports are part of the documents that were leaked on the messaging platform Discord. “One apparent attempt to use such devices against US forces was apparently thwarted in late February when three bombs were seized by US-allied Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria,” the report noted.