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Summary of developments regarding Israeli invasion of Syria and the influence of the war on Iran: July 17, 2026. 

Includes: attack on US base

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IRGC targets US command centre in Syria

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has attacked a US special operations command centre at the al-Tanf military base in Syria, the Tasnim news agency reports.

The IRGC also said the attack was in retaliation for the killing of Iranian soldiers in Iranshahr.

The Guard also said Iran retained full control of the Strait of Hormuz and that no oil or gas would be exported through the waterway for as long as the renewed US attacks continued.

 

   

Syria says Iran did not target Al-Tanf base

Syria has denied reports that Iran has bombed the Al-Tanf base near the country’s southeastern borders with Jordan and Iraq.

“We deny that the base was subjected to any targeting or shelling, and there is no American military presence in it,” a Syrian military source said.

Earlier, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps had said they targeted the facility in response to US strikes.

 

   

Syria denies Iran’s claims of attacking US base

The reaction in Damascus is complete denial of any Iranian attack on the al-Tanf base or in the vicinity of the US -base on the Syria-Jordan border. Multiple sources in the interior ministry have said, confirming that there hasn’t been any attack by Iran on Syrian territory. They also say that US troops pulled out of the al-Tanf base in February of this year, that there is no presence of American soldiers in Syria.

The IRGC in their statement said that it had targeted radar systems, as well as targeting or destroying several helicopters, as well as killing US soldiers but all of this is being denied by the Syrians and remains unconfirmed.

However it is notable that the Iranian claim comes just a day after Syrian authorities stopped a suspected shipment of weapons on the Syrian-Iraqi border that was allegedly headed to the Hezbollah group in Lebanon.

The Syrian government’s announcement of the seizure, referred to Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, which was an interesting caveat. There’s been a lot of US pressure on Damascus to intervene in Lebanon against Hezbollah, but Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa has maintained that Syria has no such plans.

 

   

No US troops in the region recently killed or captured: CENTCOM

The US military has denied Iran’s claims of killing US soldiers in Syria, according to a CENTCOM post on X.

Iran said it had killed US troops stationed at a base in al-Tanf on the Syria-Jordan border.

Syria said there’s been no Iranian attacks on the US base which US forces left in February.