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Iran's Revolutionary Guards said its missiles struck a US command center in Syria's Al-Tanf district, killing many US soldiers in retaliation for the earlier US attacks on the barracks of Iranian army's soldiers in southeast city of Iranshahr.

Axar.az reports, citing Menr, The IRGC Public Relations announced in the statement "Not only the attack destroyed a radar system and several special operations helicopters, in retaliation for the blood of the martyred soldiers the nightness in Iranshahr, but also it killed a large number of American criminal forces".

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A Syrian military source denied to AFP on Friday that Iran had bombed the al-Tanf base near Syria’s southeastern borders with Jordan and Iraq.

We deny any Iranian bombardment targeting the al-Tanf area,” the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

US forces withdrew from the base earlier this year after troops were stationed there as part of a US-led anti-extremist coalition.