Israeli military observers were dismissive of the Iranian missile strike on Syrian targets late Sunday, saying that Iranian claims of success were grossly exaggerated.
It sends "a message to the Saudi-led alliance that "our missiles have the range and the accuracy to strike anywhere in the region".
Israel and Iran are bitter enemies.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered weekend missile strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, Revolutionary Guards said, contradicting a previous report that they were authorised by the country's security council.
It was not known what was hit and Iran provided no details.
The strike, which took place with Syria's consent, delivered "fatal blows" to terror outfits and their central command post in Dayr al-Zawr, he added. Central Command, which oversees USA military operations in the Middle East. The Bahraini cleric wrote religious justifications for the enslavement of hundreds of women from Iraq's Yazidi minority and helped establish the IS branch in Libya. Clashes between the Kurdish-led SDF and Syrian forces have been rare and some rebel groups have even accused them of coordinating on the battlefield. Attempts to warn the Syrian plane away from the area using an emergency radio frequency failed, said Col.
Deir el-Zour is home to both Islamic State militants and civilians. US -backed forces recently pushed into Raqqa, the northern Syrian city that served as the group's de facto capital. Israel also remains concerned about Iran's missile launches.
Analysts say that more robust USA military action in Syria since President Donald Trump took office in January has resulted from his decision to give the military more autonomy in how it pursues the war on Islamic State group.
After the three encounters, Assad's forces wheeled around and seized territory to the north all the way to the Iraqi border, leaving USA forces and their allies largely isolated in the southeast and cutting off their path to the Islamic State group.
"The SDF is getting big-headed", said the pro-Damascus military commander, a non-Syrian who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity. US advisers were not in the immediate vicinity of the bombing by the Syrian SU-22.
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The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks Syria's war, said government forces expanded their presence in Raqqa province by capturing from IS the town of Rasafa. Daraa-based Ahmad al-Masalmeh confirmed the truce was extended Monday but did not know for how long. He is blaming the government for the truce's collapse.
A number of news outlets describe the attack as an escalation in the Syrian Civil War, but from an Iranian perspective this may not necessarily the case.
"The Saudis and Americans are especially receivers of this message", Gen. Ramazan Sharif of the Revolutionary Guard told Iranian state TV in an interview.
The exact nature of the targets, or any bomb damage assessment of the missile targets is unknown at this time. "This is what they have to show for 30 years of missile development? It did not immediately offer other specifics, other than to say the missiles were launched from Iran".
The IRGC said the attack, the first of its kind in Iran, was in response to an IS-claimed terrorist operation which claimed the lives of 18 Iranians in Tehran earlier this month.
Moscow has condemned the US downing of the Syrian government fighter jet after it dropped bombs nears USA partner forces.
Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Russian Federation said Monday it was suspending its cooperative mechanism with the U.S.in response to the downing of the Syrian warplane and threatened to shoot down enemy aircraft over Syrian government-held territory in the west.
Last weekend, the Regime fired six ballistic missiles towards the Deir ez-Zor province in Syria.
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