Tracking Anti-U.S. and Anti-Israel Strikes From Iraq and Syria During the Gaza Crisis

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Very interesting video of daylight boat-launch of a Shahed-101 X-tail. One angle taken from above by quadcopter drone, and another from on the boat, with launch team dangerous close to exhaust. Hard to tell what kind of large water body the boat is using. Image of currently unidentified individual shown laid on drone.

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Should be for third time that day?

See below for video.

Should be for second time that day?

One consolidated video for "last" two Nov 16 claims. Day/dusk launch video shows two Shahed-101 X-tails filmed launching simultaneously from many different angles. No close-up imagery of any drones.  Example of possible reuse of launch material or genuine launch material being released out of sequence.

Similar long daytime launch of a single Shahed-101 X-tail, made by the same video team as the below, probably at the same time. Same Nasrallah shrine and gesturing to Israeli base map. Same signing hand with hadid ring. Could be re-use of launch material from the below drone. Interesting image of Iraqi muqawama martyrs since October 2023.

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Unusually long daytime launch video of a single Shahed-101 X-tail. Filmed from an unusual four angles. Lebanese and Palestinian national flags and shrine-like image of Hassan Nasrallah surrounded by candles.

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Handwriting on wings and effort made to remove Iranian serial number. One signing hand has a right-hand hadid war ring. Silly elongated gesturing towards Google Earth of an Israeli base with a pointer.

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Longer daytime launch video of a single Shahed-101 X-tail. Assembly stickers on wings and tail segments also seem to have date markers / quality assurance batch numbers: "07-24-0251" (signifying July 2024 production?) Quad-puck GPS forward of the engine, not wing.

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Short launch video shows night launch of a single Shahed-101 X-tail. Two angles. Unusual format quad-puck GPS forward of the wing with label next to pucks showing serial number "S/N: 1357-0344". Wing has serial "G1640-R" probably signifying right wing.

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Launch video shows night launch of a single white-colored KAS-04 Y-tail. Two angles.

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Typical room/tunnel beginning and then daylight launch of two Shahed-101 X-tails, sequentially. Image of Leb Hezb operator Talib Sami Abdullah (killed June 2024) is prominently displayed in the video (below).

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Short launch video shows day launch of or two  Shahed-101 X-tail. Serial number (GA2162) in wings, fuselage and each tail blade. Nasrallah image shown on one drone.

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Short launch video shows night launch of a single Shahed-101 X-tail. Unusual image of hand with a ring, seems intentional. Could be a "hadid" war ring.

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Apparent 10x2 tube set-up, with at least three unfired 107mm rockets found on Amiriyah rooftop, aimed towards "Camp Victoria (Victory)". At least one rocket appears to have initiated as alarms sounded at BDSC. Unlikely that 10x rockets were loaded.

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Unusual collated format:

1: "A vital target in in our occupied land", Israel, by Al-Arqab missile.Nighttime launch video shows two cruise missiles launching, taken from five diffeent angles!

2: "A vital target in Haifa", Israel, drone.

3: "A vital target in Haifa airport", Israel, drone.

4: "A vital target in in the center of our occupied land", Israel, drone.

Nighttime launch video shows at leasrt three Shahed-101 X-tail drones launching.

Video shows image of a single Shahed-101 X-tail drone with three flags (Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine). Shows daytime launch, possibly altered to appear as if more than one drone being fired. Note red "remove before launch" tags.

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Apparently successful penetration of Israeli air defenses and impacted in Eilat port. Video shows two Shahed-136 drones taking off in daylight.

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Jihad Brothers says the drone was a Saqar-1.

Separately a new-format IRI claim video was released with simple Google Earth map graphics, showing a dusk launch of a single Shahed-101 X-tail drone and the launch controls (see below).

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The launch truck – a white KIA bongo truck with an 9x1 tube elevating cargo bed “mattress” – was found in the industrial area of Haditha, some 20km north of al-Asad.  The Iraqi Security Media Cell issued a statement claiming only two rockets were launched at the base, with another eight left unfired in their tubes, but imagery of the truck shows only two Iranian Arash type 122mm rockets, suggesting up to seven rockets may have been launched at the base. Five U.S. service members and two contractors were injured, with two serious injuries among the seven.

Daylight launch video shows at least two KAS-04 / Samad-series drone and nocturnal video shows Quds-type / Al-Arqab-type cruise missile launches

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The Islamic Resistance in Iraq War Media and the Houthi-operated "Yemeni Airmed Forces"

Launch video uniquely shows 2x Iranian-made Shahed-136 delta-wing drones, a first for IRI videos.

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Separate video explicitly links the nighttime Ashkelon oil terminal strike to a nighttime 51/Paveh/Quds-type cruise missile launch.

Note - no reliable evidence of the attack, which was disavowed by the main terrorist Telebgram channel, Sabereen News. Note also, Harir has been vacated for weeks and does not seem to be an active U.S. base anymore.

On the afternoon of January 30, a Sammad-type drone came down outside the village of Bibani, near Altun Kupri. There are some reports the drone was conducting a surveillance flight and was downed by ground fire from Peshmerga positions, but wreckage recovered at the crash site (including an explosive warhead) points to a one-way attack drone. The location of the crash suggests the drone was aimed at Erbil or Hair and launched out of the Mamah / Dibis area (where the US struck a Nujaba drone cell in December).

At approximately 21:30hrs on January 29 (probably a few hours after Qaani’s meeting with top militia leaders in Baghdad), Iraqi security forces found a bongo truck-type launch vehicle near Rabia in western Nineveh. The truck was loaded with ten rockets (probably 122mm) and was aimed across the border in the direction of the Rmelan Landing Zone (RLZ). The operators of the truck ran off when the ISF apparently “spotted” the vehicle.

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Shadadi, Syria

Rukban, Jordan

al-Tanf, Syria

"Zevulon maritime facility", Haifa, Israel

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Conoco, Syria

Green Village, Syria

Followed statement on Jan 24 by Abu Ala al-Walai (real name Hashim Bunyan al-Siraji), the leader of the U.S.-designated militia Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS), posted a statement announcing the start of the second phase of Iraqi muqawama (resistance) operations in solidarity with the Hamas war. According to him, "[This phase] will include enforcing the blockade on Zionist maritime navigation in the Mediterranean Sea and render the [Israeli] entity’s ports out of service".

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Conoco, Syria

Erbil, Iraq

al-Asad, Iraq

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Conoco, Syria

Conoco, Syria

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Shadadi, Syria and

Omar, Syria

On the morning of January 16, another three drones were launched at Erbil airport. The drones were intercepted at approximately 05:05hrs. One drone – described as two meters in wingspan, suggesting a Shahed-101 type – came down intact within the airport perimeter, again pointing to a non-kinetic electronic intercept.

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At 18:05hrs hours on January 11, a drone crashed on open land west of the airport between Sebiran and the Rashken Zerevani base, suggesting an electronic intercept.  This is an example of a failed attack that no Iraqi group seems to have claimed.

Two drones were intercepted near Erbil airport at 22:36 and 22:46hrs. Locals in the Ainkawa, Kurani, and Naznaz neighborhoods east and south of the airport reported hearing loud sounds.

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The SDF disrupted a planned rocket attack on Mission Support Site Conoco. A bongo tipper truck with a fully-loaded 10x1 tube 122mm “mattress” was found and dismantled.