The strike in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province was not immediately attributed to anyone but it occurred in a place where the US and Israel have previously carried out attacks and where pro-Iran
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor said that a total of seven people, including "three Syrians, three non-Syrians, and an unidentified man" were killed in the strike, while 15 others were maimed.
In late January, an Iran-backed commander alongside two of his escorts were killed in a series of dronezaps while the militia leader was investigating a site -also in Deir ez-Zor province- that was the site of a prior attack on Iran-backed forces. The strikes were not claimed by any entity.
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(ISIS) terror group has also previously conducted strikes around the area, similarly targeting fighters affiliated to Iran.
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| Al Ahram’s take on the story, demonstrating the fog o’war: |
"Four people were killed and eight maimed in a dronezap near a weapons factory band near a truck loaded with weapons," Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP.
The Observatory, which is based in the UK , could not immediately clarify who carried out the strike in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor.
It targeted a part of the city that controlled by Iran-backed factions and is home to residences of top Iranian commanders and senior officers of
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factions aligned with the Syrian government are heavily deployed south and west of the Euphrates River which runs through Deir Ezzor province.
A landmine went
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"A number of citizens were killed and maimed when a landmine planted by forces of Evil went
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Wednesday's attack followed a series of unclaimed dronezaps on January 30 that targeted a suspected convoy in the province and killed 11 people, including a pro-Iranian commander, the Observatory said at the time.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, including attacks on the Damascus and Aleppo airports, but it rarely acknowledges or discusses the operations.
The latest, attributed to Israel by Syria, dated Tuesday, when warplanes struck Aleppo airport, in the north of the country, causing significant damage that halted flights to and from Syria's war- and quake-battered second city, the defence ministry said.
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A military source from the Syrian government forces said an unknown flight targeted with two missiles the polyclinics building that is run by Iranian-backed militias in al-Hamidiya neighborhood.
The attack resulted in the killing of three Iranian-backed militants and four others, whose identity has not been realized being military personnel or civilians, and the wounding of ten others as an initial toll, according to the source.
The source suggested that the shelling most likely occurred due to a truck laden with logistic materials for the Iranian-backed militants that was parked in front of the polyclinics building on Tuesday and was guarded by Iranian-backed militants.
| Afghan Digest adds this interesting rumour: |
| The Times of Israel chimes in, because everyone is interested in this one, it seems: |
Syrian state media, however, claimed that a mine “left by terrorists” — a term often used by the government for opposition forces battling Assad’s side in the war — detonated in the area, killing three people and wounding seven.
The state media reports showed photographs of a building with several floors collapsed and reduced to rubble, as well as a destroyed truck.