伊朗的地区伙伴威胁要对以色列的可疑袭击做出回应大约四个中东国家通过从伊拉克驱逐美军和从黎巴嫩打击以色列。
在以色列声称对叙利亚和巴勒斯坦控制的加沙地带发动了两次袭击，并被指责对黎巴嫩和伊拉克发动了更多袭击后，一些地区行为者对此表示愤慨。在每一次袭击中，目标都是得到伊朗支持的部队，以色列指控伊朗利用其伙伴运动建立前沿基地，能够从整个中东地区将其作为目标。
在伊拉克，一个属于人民动员部队的车队在叙利亚边境附近的盖姆遭到袭击，杀害了一名伊拉克国家支持的、也得到伊朗支持的什叶派穆斯林民兵的战地指挥官。以色列既未证实也未否认其参与，但对其参与的广泛怀疑促使强大的法塔赫联盟周一呼吁以色列最亲密的盟友美国全部撤军
据美联社报道，该组织发表声明称:“虽然我们保留对这些犹太复国主义袭击做出回应的权利，但我们认为国际联盟，特别是美国，应对此次侵略负全部责任。我们认为这是对伊拉克及其人民宣战”。
8月26日，伊拉克首都巴格达以南的中央神龛城市纳杰夫，伊拉克多数派什叶派穆斯林什叶派武装力量成员抬着他们的同志卡齐姆·穆赫森的棺材，他的名字叫阿布·阿里·达比。战地指挥官在叙利亚边境附近的一次明显的以色列空袭中丧生。
最近几个月，全国人民动员部队下属的弹药库发生了一系列无人认领的爆炸，促使伊拉克总理阿黛尔·阿卜杜勒·迈赫迪在本月早些时候下令进行正式调查。这位伊拉克领导人尚未直接指责以色列，但他一再表示，伊拉克政府支持民众动员部队，该部队在打击伊斯兰国激进组织(伊斯兰国)的斗争中发挥了核心作用。
美国军方于2003年入侵伊拉克，随后于2015年作为国际联盟的一部分与伊拉克伊斯兰国作战，否认对周六的袭击或最近针对民众动员部队的任何其他袭击负有任何责任。五角大楼发言人乔纳森·霍夫曼在周一发表的一份声明中说，任何“与此相反的声明都是错误的、误导性的和煽动性的”
“我们支持伊拉克主权，并一再公开反对外部行为者在伊拉克煽动暴力的任何潜在行动。伊拉克政府有权控制自己的内部安全，保护自己的民主。他们正在对最近的袭击进行相应的调查，”声明写道。
“作为伊拉克的客人，美国部队应伊拉克政府的邀请行动，遵守所有法律和指示，”它补充说。"此外，我们正全力配合调查."
然而，美国一直试图遏制伊朗在该地区的影响力，并称赞以色列周六对叙利亚西南部村庄阿克拉巴的袭击。以色列声称，在那里，以色列已经停止了伊朗计划的“对以色列的多起无人驾驶杀手的未决大规模袭击”，杀死了两名什叶派穆斯林民兵。美国国务卿迈克·庞贝在与以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡会谈后表示，他“支持以色列保护自己免受伊朗革命卫队威胁的权利&采取行动防止对以色列资产的迫在眉睫的袭击。”
与伊拉克不同的是，美国领导的联盟在没有得到叙利亚政府许可的情况下在叙利亚开展行动。叙利亚被控在与一场反叛和圣战起义的冲突中犯有战争罪，这场起义曾得到美国及其地区盟友(包括以色列)的支持。以色列一直在对据称与伊朗有关的地点进行长达一年的袭击。周二在大马士革的一次会议上，叙利亚外交部副部长艾曼·苏桑谴责任何外国军队在叙利亚的存在，并发誓他们将被驱逐出境。
叙利亚政府已经得到了俄罗斯和伊朗的支持以及德黑兰支持的地区民兵组织，如黎巴嫩什叶派穆斯林真主党运动和解放巴勒斯坦人民阵线——总指挥部。周日，真主党表示，是以色列策划使用致命无人机，此前该组织位于贝鲁特南郊的媒体总部显然遭到两个小型爆炸式无人驾驶飞机的袭击。
同一天晚些时候，当以色列对来自加沙地带的火箭弹袭击进行报复，对巴勒斯坦逊尼派伊斯兰哈马斯组织的阵地进行袭击时，在黎巴嫩东部城镇库萨亚的解放巴勒斯坦人民阵线总指挥部基地，又发生了两起无人驾驶飞机袭击。据报道，该组织周二公布了其战士用防空火力对抗袭击的镜头。
响应伊拉克法塔赫联盟的声明，黎巴嫩总统米歇尔·奥恩——其主要的基督教自由爱国运动与真主党和其他政党结盟，成为执政的3月8日集团的一部分——称所谓的以色列行动是“宣战”萨阿德·哈里里总理是反对派(主要是3月14日集团中的逊尼派未来运动)的成员，他接受了庞贝的电话，但称这些袭击是“威胁黎巴嫩主权的侵略”
8月27日，以色列方面在与黎巴嫩有争议的边界拍摄的照片显示，黎巴嫩军队和联合国驻黎巴嫩临时部队(联黎部队)的车辆在黎巴嫩艾塔隆村真主党旗帜附近巡逻。在以色列针对整个中东地区伊朗支持的团体发动了一系列可疑的袭击后，以色列和真主党领导人交换了威胁。
真主党秘书长哈桑·纳斯鲁拉称以色列无人机在贝鲁特的袭击是自2006年战争以来的“第一次侵略行为”。纳斯鲁拉还谴责所谓的针对伊拉克人民动员部队和叙利亚真主党的袭击，警告说，“如果以色列杀害我们在叙利亚的任何兄弟，我们将对黎巴嫩的这一杀害事件作出回应。”
内塔尼亚胡周二回应说:“我听到了纳斯鲁拉的言论。我建议纳斯鲁拉放松。他非常清楚，以色列国知道如何自卫，如何报复敌人。”以色列领导人在对纳斯鲁拉、黎巴嫩政府和伊朗革命卫队圣城部队指挥官卡西姆·苏莱曼尼的警告中说，“说话要小心，行动要更加小心。”
IRAN'S ALLIES WANT U.S. OUT OF IRAQ NOW, THREATEN TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST ISRAEL FROM LEBANON AFTER STRIKES ACROSS REGION
Iran's regional partners have threatened to respond to suspected Israeli strikes across some four Middle Eastern countries by expelling U.S. forces from Iraq and striking Israel from Lebanon.
A number of regional actors have responded with outrage after a weekend in which Israel claimed two strikes in Syria and the Palestinian-administered Gaza Strip and was blamed for additional attacks in Lebanon and Iraq. In each case, the targets were forces supported by Iran, which Israel has accused of using its partnered movements to set up forward bases capable of targeting it from across the Middle East.
In Iraq, a convoy belonging to the Popular Mobilization Forces was struck in Al-Qaim, near the Syrian border, killing a field commander of the Iraqi state-sponsored, majority-Shiite Muslim militia also supported by Iran. Israel has neither confirmed or denied its involvement, but widespread suspicion as to its involvement has prompted the powerful Fatah Alliance to call Monday for a total withdrawal of Israel's closest ally, the U.S.
"While we reserve the right to respond to these Zionist attacks, we hold the international coalition, particularly the United States, fully responsible for this aggression, which we consider a declaration of war on Iraq and its people," a statement by the group read, according to the Associated Press.
Members of Iraq's majority-Shiite Muslim Al-Hashed Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) paramilitary force carry the coffin of their comrade Kazem Mohsen, known by his nom de guerre Abu Ali al-Dabi, during his funeral procession in the central shrine city of Najaf south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, August 26. The field commander was killed in an apparent Israeli air strike in Al-Qaim, located near the Syrian border.
The strike followed a series of unclaimed explosions at munitions depots affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces across the country in recent months, prompting an official investigation to be ordered earlier this month by Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdu-Mahdi. The Iraqi leader has yet to outright blame Israel, but has repeatedly expressed his government's support for the Popular Mobilization Forces, which played a central role in battling the Islamic State militant group (ISIS).
The U.S., whose military invaded Iraq in 2003 and later battled ISIS as part of an international coalition in 2015, has denied any responsibility in Saturday's strikes or any other recent attacks against the Popular Mobilization Forces. In a statement published Monday, Pentagon spokesperson Jonathan R. Hoffman said any "statements to the contrary are false, misleading, and inflammatory."
"We support Iraqi sovereignty and have repeatedly spoken out against any potential actions by external actors inciting violence in Iraq. The government of Iraq has a right to control their own internal security and protect their democracy. They are conducting an investigation into the recent attacks accordingly," the statement read.
"As guests of Iraq, U.S. forces operate at the invitation of the Iraqi government and comply with all laws and directions," it added. "Furthermore, we are fully cooperating with the investigation."
The U.S. has, however, sought to curb Iran's influence across the region and lauded Israeli strikes Saturday in the southwestern Syrian village of Aqrabah, where Israel claimed to have stopped a "pending, large-scale attack of multiple killer drones on Israel" planned by Iran by killing two members of a Shiite Muslim militia. Following a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he expressed "support for Israel's right to defend itself from threats posed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps & to take action to prevent imminent attacks against Israeli assets."
Unlike in Iraq, the U.S.-led coalition operates in Syria without the permission of the national government, accused of war crimes in its conflict with a rebel and jihadi uprising once backed by the U.S. and its regional allies, including Israel, which has continued a years-long campaign of strikes against sites said to be associated with Iran. At a meeting Tuesday in Damascus, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Ayman Sousan condemned the presence of any foreign forces in his country, vowing they would be expelled.
The Syrian government has received support from Russia and Iran, along with Tehran-backed regional militias such as Lebanese Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command. On Sunday, Hezbollah said it was Israel that plotted to use lethal drones after the group's media headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut was apparently targeted by two small explosive-laden unmanned aerial devices.
Later that same day, as Israel retaliated to rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip with strikes on positions of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist Hamas group, two more drone attacks apparently occurred at a base of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command in the eastern Lebanese town of Qusaya. The group published footage Tuesday of its fighters reportedly confronting the attack with anti-aircraft fire.
Echoing the Iraqi Fatah Alliance's statements, Lebanese President Michel Aoun—whose largely Christian Free Patriotic Movement was allied with Hezbollah and other parties as part of the ruling March 8 bloc—called the alleged Israeli moves a "declaration of war." Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, a member of the opposition mostly Sunni Future Movement in the March 14 bloc, took a call from Pompeo, but called the attacks an "aggression" that "threatened the sovereignty of Lebanon."
A picture taken from the Israeli side of the disputed border with Lebanon on August 27 shows Lebanese military and United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) vehicles patrolling near a Hezbollah flag in the Lebanese village of Aitaroun. The leaders of Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged threats after a series of suspected Israeli strikes targeted Iran-backed groups across the Middle East.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah described the suspected Israeli drone attack in Beirut to be the "the first act of aggression" since their 2006 war. Nasrallah also condemned the alleged targeting of the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq and of Hezbollah in Syria, warning that "if Israel kills any of our brothers in Syria, we will respond to this killing in Lebanon."
Netanyahu responded Tuesday, saying: "I heard Nasrallah's remarks. I suggest that Nasrallah relax. He knows very well that the State of Israel knows how to defend itself and how to pay back its enemies." In a warning to Nasrallah, the Lebanese government and Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, the Israeli leader said, "Be careful with your words and be even more careful with your actions."
