10 dead in fresh drone strikes in Syria

Atotal of 10 people were killed in a series of drone strikes targeting pro-Iran factions in eastern Syria, including three dead in strikes yesterday, a war monitor said.

A pro-Iranian commander was among the three killed in the drone strikes yesterday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that they had been inspecting the site of strikes that had killed seven others the previous evening.

“A commander in an Iran-backed group and two of his companions, all of them non-Syrian, were killed this morning after renewed drone strikes,” the Observatory said yesterday.

The commander’s pickup truck was targeted while he was inspecting the site of the Sunday evening strike that destroyed a convoy of six refrigerated trucks transporting Iranian weapons to Syria from Iraq.

Convoy struck

The convoy was struck in the Albu Kamal border region where pro-Iran groups have a large presence, said the Observatory, which has a wide network of sources inside Syria.

The seven killed Sunday were truck drivers and their assistants, all of them non-Syrians, the Observatory said, adding that they were “killed as a result of unidentified aircraft targeting a convoy of Iran-backed groups”.

No country claimed the strikes, but Israel has carried out hundreds of air and missile strikes against Iranbacked and government forces in Syria, where the US military is also active.

A commander in an Iran-backed group and two of his companions, all of them nonSyrian, were killed this morning after renewed drone strikes.”

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights