At least 9 dead in new US bombing against Iranian militias in Syria, according to NGO

At least nine people died today in a bomb attack U.S against targets belonging to Iranian militias in the province of Deir al-Zurin the east of Syriathe second in the last two weeks in response to a wave of attacks against its bases, two NGOs reported.

The air attack took place at dawn against the positions of armed groups supported by Tehran and against a weapons warehouse in the city of Deir al-Zurcapital of the province with the same name, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is a statement.

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According to the NGO, based in UK and a wide network of collaborators in the field, bombing killed nine people, including three Syrian citizens “who worked with the Iranians”and destroyed an unknown number of weapons.

The director of the local activist network DeirAlZur24, Omar Abu Laylaalso confirmed the same number of victims in its X report and added that three of them were members of forces loyal to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.

The attack was announced by Central Command of the Armed Forces Americans (CENTCOM), who defined it as a coup against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and groups “associates” in response to a series of attacks against its personnel deployed in Iraq It is Syria.

Since last October 17th, within the scope of the war Linkthe pro-Iranian militia group Islamic Resistance in Iraq carried out around 40 actions against facilities with the presence of USA on both sides of the Syria-Iraq border, including missile launches and drone strikes.

washington already bombed centers related to the Revolutionary Guard in eastern Syriashortly after the Pentagon announced that 21 of your soldiers They were slightly injured by attacks by pro-Iran militias in the region.

In fact, both the Observatory and Abu Layla They assured that after the air raid USA this morning the groups supported by Will They attacked the oil field again Al-Omarwhere a base of the international coalition led by washington also in Deir al-Zur.

The province is broadly divided into two areas of influence defined by the course of the river. Euphrates: one in the hands of Syrian Kurd with the presence of U.S and another controlled by government troops, where allied militias such as the Iranian ones are also mobilized.

Source: Elcomercio

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