Air strikes kill 18 pro-Iran fighters in east Syria
Air strikes on Monday killed 18 pro-Iran fighters in
east Syria, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
It was not clear who carried out the raids in the
region of al-Bukamal near the border with Iraq, according to the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights.
The strikes come the same day as the Lebanese
terrorist organization Hezbollah claims to have downed an Israeli drone in
neighboring Lebanon amid heightened tensions in the region.
In August, the Israeli military attacked targets
near Syria's capital of Damascus in what it said was a successful effort to
thwart an imminent Iranian drone strike on Israel, stepping up an already
heightened campaign against Iranian military activity in the region.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iranian
proxy Hezbollah have been fighting alongside the al-Assad regime in the Syrian
war.
