Unknown flight kills 8 Syrian soldiers, IRGC militants in Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Unknown aircrafts targeted on Sunday a convoy of Iranian trucks entered Syria from Iraq and a common checkpoint in Deir ez-Zor countryside, eastern Syria, killing and injuring more than ten Syrian soldiers and Iranian-backed militants.
A military source from the government forces told North Press that an unknown flight targeted a convoy of six trucks carrying ammunition and weapons belonging to the Iranian-backed Liwa al-Quds, near al-Estora square in the town of al-Hari on the Syrian-Iraqi border, with three missiles.
The flight, then, targeted a military common checkpoint of the government forces and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) near the crossing of the border railway in Deir ez-Zor, according to the source.
The airstrikes killed eight soldiers of the government forces and the IRGC militants and injured more than ten others, the source added.
Iranian-backed factions mobilized in the town of Abu Kamal on the Syrian-Iraqi border, in addition to evacuating their posts, fearing the repetition of the attacks, the source added.
The Iranian-backed militias and the Syrian government forces have been running vast swaths in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor since expelling ISIS in 2017.