Iran's missile attack kills 65 IS militants in eastern Syria

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"The IRGC warns the Takfiri terrorists and their regional and trans-regional supporters that they would be engulfed by its revolutionary wrath and flames of the fire of its revenge in case they repeat any such devilish and dirty move in future", it said, according to Fars News Agency. It is still unclear what the missiles struck, and Iran has provided few details.

Russia, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, called on the USA military to provide a full accounting as to why it chose to shoot down the Syrian Su-22 bomber. Dunford said Monday, June 19, 2017, that Washington and Moscow are in delicate discussions to tamp down tensions arising from the us shootdown of a Syrian fighter jet, which the Russians called a violation of a U.S.

Iran has sent to Syria military advisers as well as thousands of "volunteer" fighters recruited among its own nationals as well as the Shiite communities in neighbouring Afghanistan and Pakistan since Syria's conflict broke out in March 2011.

The Dutch government is sending a military refueling plane to Kuwait to assist the USA -led coalition carrying out airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

It was the first time that ISIS, a Sunni Muslim group fighting Iranian-backed militias in Syria, has claimed responsibility for an attack in Iran.

Iranian state-controlled television quoted IRGC spokesman Ramazan Sharif as making the comments on June 19, after Iran's elite force said it had fired missiles targeting the extremist group Islamic State (IS) in Syria following deadly attacks in Tehran earlier this month.

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In Canberra, a Defense Department statement said on Tuesday that "Australian Defense Force protection is regularly reviewed in response to a range of potential threats".

"Medium-range missiles were fired from the provinces of Kermanshah and Kurdestan, and a large number of terrorists were killed and weapons destroyed", the statement said.

"We, the IDF and our security forces, are monitoring all the time Iran's activities in the area", Netanyahu told Likud lawmakers at a party meeting.

The repeated incidents in the vicinity of the Tanf camp, where USA forces train and advise local ground forces in the fight against IS, add to soaring regional tensions that could spiral out of control just as the fight against the extremists enters a crucial phase, with US -backed forces pushing into the group's de facto capital, the Syrian city of Raqqa.

Russian Federation has now declared an end to cooperation to prevent air clashes over Syria and asserted an intent to track and target aerial intruders in its area of operations west of the Euphrates.

Meanwhile, tensions between the United States and Iran have mounted since President Donald Trump took office, with the two countries imposing sanctions on one another last month.

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