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Iran-backed groups blow up gas pipeline in Syria: Monitor
Iran-backed groups blew up a gas pipeline in Syria’s Kurdish-controlled northeast near a US base Thursday, a war monitor said, as regional tensions grew following Israel’s war with Gaza-based militants. Iran-backed groups “blew up the gas pipeline near the Conoco gas facility,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Observatory’s director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP the blast had gone off close to a US base. US-led coalition forces, which entered Syria in 2014 to fight the Daesh, have set up several bases in Syria including in the Al-Omar oil field, the country’s largest. They are also deployed ... (full story)