Terror War News

In addition to attacking ISIS last night, the US also struck at a terror cell in Syria that they suspect was plotting against targets outside of the current confines of the war zone, according to the Washington Post;

The Pentagon said in a statement early Tuesday morning that U.S. warplanes conducted eight strikes west of Aleppo against the cell, called the Khorasan Group, targeting its “training camps, an explosives and munitions production facility, a communications building and command and control facilities.”

The attacks bring broader attention to the group of clandestine al-Qaeda operatives, which U.S. officials first warned of last week. The group “has established a safe haven in Syria to develop external attacks, construct and test improvised explosive devices and recruit Westerners to conduct operations,” the Pentagon said.

The Post also reports that the Russians don’t like our strikes inside Syria, but that Assad approves;

“There’s quite widespread suspicion here that the U.S. will start to bomb the Islamic State but will end up bombing the Syrian army,” said Fyodor Lukyanov, a Moscow-based analyst and head of an advisory panel to the Kremlin on foreign and defense policy. “Russia is certainly not keen on making the situation in the Middle East more difficult for Americans than it is. But why help them? .?.?. It doesn’t seem to be in Russia’s interest to get directly involved.”

As JAGC noted in the comments of another post, the Israelis shot down a Syrian jet for the first time in decades last night over the Golan Heights;

Israel said the Syrian fighter jet had crossed the UN-patrolled ceasefire line on the Golan which it regards as its international border.

Pictures taken by AFP showed smoke rising from the Syrian village of Jubata al-Khashab which had been bombed by the warplane just moments before it was shot down by a Patriot surface-to-air missile fired by Israel.

The burning wreckage, also caught on camera, plunged down on the Syrian side of the ceasefire line.

The Israelis also launched a raid into the West Bank to take out two of the murderers of Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaar, and Naftali Fraenkel which sparked the latest war between Hamas and the Israelis according to the Associated Press;

“We were determined in bringing the ruthless murderers of Gilad, Eyal and Naftali to justice,” Lerner said. “Today’s successful mission brings the long-term search to an end, and the perpetrators of the crime no longer pose a threat to Israeli civilians,” he said.

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In Qatar, Hussam Badran, a spokesman for top Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, praised the two militants on his Twitter account. “The martyrdom of Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisheh came after a long life full of jihad sacrifice and giving. This is the path of resistance, which we all are moving in,” he said.

One long, bloody night last night. Glad to see so many jihadists fulfill their destinies, though.

ADDED: Our buddy, Jeff Schogol at the Military Times sends us a link to a series of videos of the action overnight.

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