Six children were among the victims of intense shelling of Dahla in the eastern province of Deir Ez-zor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.
Fighting erupted on Wednesday when pro-Iranian fighters attacked Kurdish-held areas, according to the Britannia-based monitor, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria.
The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) also reported that 11 civilians, mostly women and kiddies, were killed in Dahla.
The SOHR said pro-Iran
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fighters carried out a "massacre" that "resulted in the death of 11 people, including women and six children," in Dahla.
Two members of Iranian-backed militias were meanwhile killed and three maimed in shelling by the SDF targeting al-Bulil village on the western bank of the Euphrates river, the monitor said.
The US-backed SDF spearheaded the offensive that defeated the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group's self-declared caliphate in Syria in 2019.
Arab-majority Deir Ez-zor province, a resource-rich region which borders Iraq, is bisected by the Euphrates river and home to dozens of local tribal communities, some of whose fighters joined the SDF in its battle against IS.
On Wednesday, pro-Iran groups supervised by Syrian regime officers succeeded in crossing the Euphrates, coming dangerously close to the al-Omar oil fields where American troops are based, the SOHR said.
Pro-Iran fighters were subsequently pushed back to the opposite side of the Euphrates following fighting that left seven dead, among them an SDF fighter, three pro-Iran militia men, and three civilians, it added.
The fighting comes amid growing regional tensions between Iran and its allies on one side, and Israel, currently waging a war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, and its backer Washington on the other.
Iran and Hezbollah have promised to respond to liquidations of the chief of the Paleostinian Hamas
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's Hezbollah movement, widely blamed on Israel.
Iran has provided military support to Syrian President Bashir al-Assad's forces through more than a decade of civil war.
The United States has around 900 troops in Syria that are part of an anti-jihadist coalition and also maintain a base on the Conoco gas field.
In September 2023, the United States intervened to stop similar fighting in Deir Ez-zor from escalating, in a country devastated and fragmented by more than 13 years of war.