The Pentagon has now twice deliberately targeted Syrian President Bashar Assad's military and launched three other airstrikes against what it calls "pro-regime" forces - a sharp reversal of the hands-off stance toward Assad that the US took during the opening weeks of Trump's presidency.
Israel and Iran are bitter enemies. "We want to de-escalate, not escalate", Davis said.
In April, Trump ordered cruise missile strikes against a Syrian airfield from which Washington said a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched.
The White House said on Monday that coalition forces fighting Islamic State militants in Syria would retain the right to self-defense, and said the United States would work to keep lines of communication open with Russian Federation.
"The goal is to get the U.S.to repeatedly confirm that it has no military intentions inside Syria, aside from eliminating the Islamic State", she said. Activists and IS supporters reported his death at the time, but the military is only confirming it now. The Bahraini cleric wrote religious justifications for the enslavement of hundreds of women from Iraq's Yazidi minority and helped establish the IS branch in Libya.
Iran has objected to the calls made by the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of supporting efforts of a regime change in Tehran and also threatening to pursue sanctions on Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Both the administration of former President Barack Obama and Trump's have focused exclusively on defeating Islamic State, but with the militants' self-proclaimed caliphate shrinking, US -backed and Syrian-backed forces appear to be competing for territory. He rose to be one of the extremist group's leading ideologues. USA -backed forces recently pushed into Raqqa, the northern Syrian city that served as the group's de facto capital. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to reporters. The official says the drone was a Shaheed 129 and appeared to have been operated by "pro-regime" forces. The truce was meant to be extended but now appears to have collapsed.
A spokesman for the Guard, Gen. Ramazan Sharif, said all six ballistic missiles hit their targets, citing "local sources" and drone footage.
Farmers clash with police on Thane-Badlapur highway, injuries reported
The protests erupted after the Indian Navy made a decision to build a fence around an old British-era aerodrome in Thane . The Maharashtra police sent out additional forces and riot control vehicles to pacify the swelling crowd.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government forces pushed on Tuesday into some rebel-held areas in Daraa, as well as its western outskirts.
Daraa is where the March 2011 uprising against the Assad family's four-decade rule began. The crisis quickly became a civil war, which has since left at least 400,000 people dead. RCC volunteers say they have told the coalition it will take 5.3 billion Syrian lira (about $10 million) a year to restore power and water supplies, roads and schools and that they have nothing but small private donations so far.
Five Islamic State-linked attackers stormed Iran's parliament and a shrine to revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on June 7, killing at least 17 people and wounding more than 50.
The launch, which hit Syria's eastern city of Deir el-Zour on Sunday night, appeared to be Iran's first missile attack overseas in over 15 years and its first in the Syrian conflict amid its support of embattled President Bashar Assad.
The attack also came as emboldened Sunni Arab states - backed by U.S. President Donald Trump - are hardening their stance against Iran.
Israeli security officials said on Monday they were studying the missile strike to see what they could learn about its accuracy and capabilities.
Syrian government forces have also been attacking IS in northern, central and southern parts of the country, seizing 9,600 square miles and reaching the Iraqi border for the first time in years.
Bir Qassab fell to Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels after it was abandoned a few months ago by Islamic State (IS) militants beating an eastward retreat to reinforce their urban bastion, Raqqa, against a US -backed coalition offensive, and oil rich Deir al Zor province, which borders Iraq.
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