5 Iranian-backed fighters have been killed in a drone strike in jap Syria close to the Iraqi border on Sunday (11 August 2024), a conflict monitor mentioned, including that it was not but clear who was behind the assault.
“5 pro-Iranian fighters have been killed and others wounded, some significantly… after an unknown drone attacked the army car they have been travelling in… close to the Syrian-Iraqi border,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights mentioned.
The assault occurred in Syria’s jap Deir Ezzor province, the place Iran wields vital affect and is usually focused by Israel and the US, in line with the Britain-based monitor and a community of sources inside Syria.
In June, three pro-Iranian fighters, together with at the least two Iraqis, have been killed in a nighttime airstrike in jap Syria close to the Iraqi border, the Observatory reported.
Because the begin of the Syrian civil conflict in 2011, Israel has carried out tons of of strikes primarily towards military positions and Iranian-backed fighters, together with these from Lebanon’s Hezbollah group.
Israel not often feedback on particular person strikes in Syria.
Iran-backed teams, together with Lebanon’s highly effective Hezbollah motion, have bolstered President Bashar al-Assad’s forces throughout Syria’s civil conflict.
The Syrian authorities’s brutal suppression of an rebellion in 2011 sparked the battle that has killed greater than half one million individuals and concerned international armies and jihadists.