Unknown drones kill, wound Iranian-backed militants in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Three militants of Iranian-backed factions were killed and more than eight were wounded on Tuesday in an unidentified drone attack on the factions’ sites in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
Unidentified drones conducted two airstrikes on a site of al-Quds Brigade on the outskirts of al-Mayadin desert in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, North Press reported a military source, from al-Quds Brigade in the town of al-Quriya, 50 km east of Deir ez-Zor.
The drones retuned again to the region and shelled a military site belonging to al-Qatirji forces and the Fourth Division stationed on the western bank of the Euphrates in the town of al-Quriya, the source, who declined to be named, added.
One member was killed and more than eight others were wounded in the shelling, according to the source.
The source confirmed that the drones targeted a military point of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in al-Hari near the Syrian-Iraqi border. Two members of the IRGC were killed thus.
Large areas of the Syrian desert and areas in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor are controlled by the Iranian-backed factions.
Two days ago, the Syrian government announced the killing of five of its members and the wounding of 20 others in an ISIS attack that targeted their bus in the middle of the Syrian desert.