Iraq: Army launches first attack in Syria as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants try to cross border
Iraq’s army attacked a convoy of extremist rebel fighters inside eastern Syria, leaving eight dead Sunday as the vehicles approached the country’s border, according to Agence France Presse.
Iraq’s Brigadier General Saad Maan told AFP, “The army struck eight tanker trucks in Wadi Suwab inside Syrian territory as they were trying to enter Iraqi territory to provide the (jihadist) Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with fuel.”
Maan confirmed that this is the first time that Iraq’s military has conducted an attack within Syria’s borders and added that “there was no coordination with the Syrian regime” on Baghdad’s decision to strike the convoy.