Unknown assailants attack IRGC, Hezbollah in Syria causing casualties
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Unidentified assailants attacked on Tuesday patrols and headquarters of Iranian-backed militias and Lebanon’s Hezbollah in different parts of Syria, killing three militants and wounding seven others.
A military source of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that unknown gunmen riding a motorcycle attacked with machineguns the patrol of the Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada’ (Master of Martyrs Battalions), affiliated with the IRGC, near the Arba’in Street in the town of al-Mayadin in eastern Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.
The source told North Press that the attack killed two militants and injured four others.
In another incident, unknown assailants targeted with machineguns the Iranian al-Shifaa Hospital in the town of al-Asharah in eastern Deir ez-Zor, injuring two of the hospital’s guards, according to the source.
This is the third attack against the hospital in a week, even though the IRGC usually takes strict security measures, the source added.
In central Syria, an attack against the headquarters of the Lebanese Hezbollah left behind one militant dead and another injured in a town in southern Homs Governorate.
According to a military source from the Syrian government forces in Homs, rocket attacks targeted a military training headquarters for Hezbollah militants in the town of Shinshar in southern Homs, killing one Hezbollah militant and injuring another.
Two days earlier, an RPG shell attack targeted Ishara Battalion, affiliated with the Syrian government forces. The attack took place in Shinshar and resulted in material damage to the battalion’s property.