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The United States has some 900 troops in Syria and 2,500 in neighbouring Iraq as part of an international coalition against the Islamic State group, a jihadist organisation that once controlled swathes of both countries. Photo: AFP

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Rockets fired from Iraq towards US military base in Syria, security sources say

The attack against US forces is the first since early February when Iranian-backed groups in Iraq stopped their attacks against US troops

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Israel targets army position in Syria: Syria's defence ministry

Iranians attend the funeral of seven Revolutionary Guard Corps members killed in a strike on the country's consular annex in Damascus, which Tehran blamed on Israel. Photo: AFP

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Iran says Israeli embassies 'no longer safe' after Syria strike

Officials at the Iranian embassy in Syria in Damascus pay condolences at an event commemorating people killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike on the embassy complex. April 3, 2024. REUTERS/Firas Makdesi

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US on high alert for Iran threat in region after Israeli strike in Syria

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Blast kills 7 children in southern Syria: State media

The U.S. flag flies over the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. December 19, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

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US on high alert for Iran threat in region after Israeli strike in Syria

The family of Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who was killed in the Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy complex in the Syrian capital Damascus, gathers next to his coffin during a funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran April 4, 2024. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS

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Iran embassy strike shows Israel's growing reach as Mideast boils

FILE PHOTO: An excavator clears rubble after a suspected Israeli strike on Monday on Iran's consulate, adjacent to the main Iranian embassy building, which Iran said had killed seven military personnel including two key figures in the Quds Force, in the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria April 2, 2024. REUTERS/Firas Makdesi/File Photo

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Iran vows revenge on Israel after Damascus embassy attack

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At least 7 killed and 30 injured in car blast in Syrian town near Turkish border, residents say

A warplane carries out a bombing run above Syria near the Israeli-Syrian border as it is seen from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights , Israel July 24, 2018. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo

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Death toll in Israeli strikes on Syria climbs to 52

A warplane carries out a bombing run above Syria near the Israeli-Syrian border as it is seen from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights , Israel July 24, 2018. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo

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Israel hits Syria in heaviest raid on Iran proxies in months

Smoke rises after an Israeli missile strike on Damascus, Syria which killed four members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, including the head of the force's information unit in Syria, according to a security source in the regional pro-Syria alliance, January 20, 2024 in this image obtained from social media. Sham FM via REUTERS/File Photo

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Israeli strike killed 36 Syrian soldiers near Aleppo

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World Health Organization says staff member killed in Syria airstrike