At least 4 folks have been killed in a drone strike focusing on Iran-backed teams in government-held japanese Syria on Wednesday, a struggle monitor mentioned.
“Four people were killed and eight wounded in a drone strike near a weapons factory belonging to Iran-backed groups and near a truck loaded with weapons,” Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights advised AFP.
There was no instant phrase on who carried out the strike within the japanese metropolis of Deir el-Zour.
It focused part of the town that’s residence to residences of prime Iranian commanders and senior officers of Lebanon’s Hezbollah motion, in addition to an Iranian hospital to deal with cholera sufferers, Abdel Rahman mentioned.
Pro-Iran factions aligned with the Syrian authorities, together with Hezbollah, are closely deployed south and west of the Euphrates River which runs by Deir el-Zour province.
Wednesday’s assault adopted a sequence of unclaimed drone strikes on Jan. 30 that focused a suspected Iranian weapons convoy within the province and killed 11 folks, together with a pro-Iranian commander, the Observatory mentioned.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
