Jauhn Etienne Villaruel

A woman crosses Tehran's Enghelab Square on July 15, 2026, past a giant anti-US billboard featuring US president Donald Trump in a coffin with text in Persian reading "We Kill Trump". Hostilities renewed between Iran and the US, endangering a memorandum of understanding, reached in June with Qatari and Pakistani mediation, aimed at ending the war. The confrontation resumed on July 7 after attacks on ships in the Gulf, which Iran has attributed to Iran. (Photo by AFP) /

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Agence France-Presse

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1784506201205Screen Shot 2026-07-20 at 8.09.47 AM.png" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">A woman crosses Tehran&#x27;s Enghelab Square on July 15, 2026, past a giant anti-US billboard featuring US president Donald Trump in a coffin with text in Persian reading &quot;We Kill Trump.&quot; Hostilities renewed between Iran and the US, endangering a memorandum of understanding, reached in June with Qatari and Pakistani mediation, aimed at ending the war.<em> Photo by AFP/File </em></span></span></span></div><p>TEHRAN, Iran — Iran&#x27;s Revolutionary Guards said Monday they had launched a &quot;surprise attack&quot; on an enemy command center in Syria, according to state media.</p><p>They announced &quot;a surprise attack on the enemy special operations command centre in the Al-Tanf region of Syria in revenge for the blood of martyred soldiers of Iranshahr&quot;, the IRNA state news agency said in a statement posted on Telegram.</p><p>Iran&#x27;s Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday that funerals were held for three soldiers killed in a US attack on a barracks in Iranshahr, in the country&#x27;s southeast.</p><p>On Friday, the Guards announced that they had attacked the Al-Tanf base, which the Syrian army took control of in February after the United States withdrew.</p><p>A Syrian military source later denied to AFP that any attack had taken place.</p><p>The Al-Tanf base is located near Syria&#x27;s southeastern borders with Jordan and Iraq.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><strong><br/></strong></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEOS</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9A4kWI4IlQM?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/grvnybriPpU?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday they had launched a "surprise attack" on an enemy command center in Syria, according to state media.</p>

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday they had launched a "surprise attack" on an enemy command center in Syria, according to state media.

Iran Guards announce attack on 'enemy' command center in Syria—state media

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Iran Guards announce attack on 'enemy' command center in Syria—state media

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Published July 20, 2026 08:15 AM PHT

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