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A senior US intelligence official on Wednesday said airstrikes in eastern Syriathe previous night were carried out by Israel with intelligence provided by the United States.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The remarks by the official after the attack marked a rare incidence of publicized cooperation between the two sides over choosing targets in Syria.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The US official, who requested anonymity to speak about sensitive national security matters, claimed the strikes targeted a series of warehouses near the Iraqi border that were being used in a pipeline to store and stage Iranian weapons.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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According to the official, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed Tuesday’s airstrikes with Yossi Cohen, chief of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, at a public meeting in popular Washington restaurant Café Milano on Monday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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According to Syria’s official SANA news agency, the strikes targeted sites in the areas of Boukamal and Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, where there is a major presence of Iranian-backed militias.<\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_date_start":"2021-01-13 15:14:05","content_date_event":"2021-01-13 15:14:05","content_date_event_start":null,"content_date_event_end":null,"content_show_title_slider":1,"content_date_last_edit":"2021-01-13 15:23:32","content_date_register":"2021-01-13 15:17:41","content_columns":0,"content_show_img":1,"content_show_details":0,"content_show_related_img":0,"content_show_slider":1,"content_comment":1,"content_score":0,"tag_id":0,"score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"uid":44,"eid":44,"attach_title":"US official: Israel carried out Syria strikes using American intelligence\n 2","attaches":[{"sizes":{"150":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202101\/484057_1964282970_150_94.webp","300":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202101\/484057_1964282970_300_188.webp","400":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202101\/484057_1964282970_400_250.webp","600":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202101\/484057_1964282970_600_375.webp","900":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202101\/484057_1964282970_640_400.jpg","1200":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202101\/484057_1964282970_640_400.jpg"},"ext":"jpg","file_media":1,"token":1964282970,"files":{"original":{"url":".\/file\/2\/attach\/202101\/484057_1964282970.jpg","width":640,"height":400,"size":0}}}]}]]